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- ...You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.
- Bob Dylan (1941 - ), "Subterranean Homesick Blues", 1965
- Step with care and great tact
And remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act Just never forget to be dexterous and deft And never mix up your right foot with your left. - Dr. Seuss (1904 - 1991), Oh, the Places You'll Go
- Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness.
- Stanislaw Lem (1921 - 2006), "Holiday", September 1963
- A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
- Most people believe that if you go in and try to micromanage a forest, it is possible to destroy the very thing that makes it a unique and special place. That's just as true of the Net.
- Glen Raphael
- Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.
- James Russell Lowell (1819 - 1891)
- A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
- Dean Acheson, in Wall Street Journal, September 8, 1977
- Speak no evil of an absent friend.
(Non male loquare absenti amico) - Titus Maccius Plautus (254 BC - 184 BC), Trinummus, IV, c. 190 BC
- All a man can betray is his conscience.
- Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924)
- In youth we learn; in age we understand.
- Marie Ebner von Eschenbach
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