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- Who so loves believes the impossible.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806 - 1861)
- Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
- Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.
- John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
- Everyone complains of his lack of memory, but nobody of his want of judgment.
- La Rochefoucauld
- One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.
- Etty Hilsum
- We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.
- Walter Kerr
- I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims. They have undertaken to build a tower, and spend no more labor on the foundation than would be necessary to erect a hut.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- "He means well" is useless unless he does well.
- Plautus
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