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- In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.
- John Adams (1735 - 1826)
- In every work of genius we see our own rejected thoughts.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Self Reliance
- Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.
- Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989), A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
- Sickness and healing are in every heart; death and deliverance in every hand.
- Orson Scott Card (1951 - ), Speaker for the Dead
- A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.
- Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910)
- Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization.
- Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
- Death doesn't really worry me that much, I'm not frightened about it... I just don't want to be there when it happens.
- Woody Allen (1935 - ), The Standup Years
- Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.
- Gail Sheehy
- It is only with one's heart that one can see clearly. What is essential is invisible to the eye.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900 - 1944), The Little Prince
- If I were to command a general to turn into a seagull, and if the general did not obey, that would not be the general's fault. It would be mine
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900 - 1944), The Little Prince
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