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- People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
- Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962), My Day
- All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
- Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933)
- To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
- Sun-Tzu (~400 BC)
- No one would be foolish enough to choose war over peace--in peace sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons.
- Croesus of Lydia
- The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
- Robert Maynard Hutchins
- The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
- I can endure my own despair but not another's hope.
- William Walsh, Song
- What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes us intense desire.
- Ovid (43 BC - 17 AD), Amorum, Book 2, 19, 3
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