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- To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
- Charles de Gaulle (1890 - 1970)
- I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
- D. H. Lawrence (1885 - 1930)
- Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
- Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980)
- When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.
- John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids
- You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
- Margaret Thatcher (1925 - )
- Do not speak harshly to any one; those who are spoken to will answer thee in the same way. Angry speech is painful: blows for blows will touch thee.
- Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC), The Dharmapada
- One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
- You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.
- Lou Holtz
- Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.
- Alexander Hamilton (1755 - 1804)
- A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.
- Robert Hall
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