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- I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
- In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.
- James Russell Lowell (1819 - 1891)
- Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers.
- Mary Tyler Moore (1936 - ), Mary Richards, "The Mary Tyler Moore Show"
- What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
- Boris Pasternak (1890 - 1960)
- The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
- Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997)
- Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
- Marianne Williamson, Return to Love, 1992
- The beauty of daylight-saving time is that it just makes everyone feel sunnier.
- Edward Markey, quoted in Associated Press, July 22, 2005
- If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997)
- A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.
- Jessamyn West (1902 - 1984)
- "Management" means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folklore and superstition, and of cooperation for force. . .
- Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005), People and Performance
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