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- You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
- Henry Ford (1863 - 1947)
- Hell, there are no rules here-- we're trying to accomplish something.
- Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)
- Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
- Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?
- Kelvin Throop III
- Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.
- John Maynard Keynes (1883 - 1946)
- Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759
- That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
- William J. H. Boetcker
- My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965), Speech in Detroit, 7 Oct. 1952
- The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
- Dorothy Nevill
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