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- True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laugther, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.
- Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
- Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, "I did not give it to the man, but to humanity."
- Johnson
- Too many people confine their exercise to jumping to conclusions, running up bills, stretching the truth, bending over backward, lying down on the job, sidestepping responsibility and pushing their luck.
- Author Unknown
- It is almost impossible to smile on the outside without feeling better on the inside.
- Author Unknown
- It is a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it.
- Author Unknown
- Human nature is not of itself vicious.
- Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)
- It is often easier to fight for one's principles that to live up to them.
- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965)
- The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
- Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962)
- Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment
- R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983)
- Drinking without being thirsty and making love at any time, Madame, are the only things that distinguish us from other animals.
- Beaumarchis
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