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- I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving -- we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it -- but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
- The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.
- Havelock Ellis (1859 - 1939)
- One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- Expect everything, and anything seems nothing.
Expect nothing, and anything seems everything. - Samuel Hazo
- Politicians are the same all over. they promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.
- Nikita Khrushchev (1894 - 1971)
- Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
- James Joyce (1882 - 1941)
- The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more,
Or close the wall up with our English dead!
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility;
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger:
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood. - Shakespeare, King Henry V, Act III, Scene 1
- A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.
- Doug Larson
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