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- People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
- John Miller
- Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think of yourself.
- James Stephens
- Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, jr.
- Logic is an instrument used for bolstering a prejudice.
- Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
- There is no greater sorrow than to recall, in misery, the time win we were happy.
- Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321)
- This land of ours cannot be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.
- Richard M. Nixon (1913 - 1994)
- I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is much better policy to prophesy after the event has taken place.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- The prophet and the quack are alike admired for a generation, and admired for the wrong reasons.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
- In conditions of great uncertainty people tend to predict the events that they want to happen actually will happen.
- Roberta Wohlstetter
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