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- Unless you are prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.
- Orison Swett Marden (1850 - 1924)
- There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices.
- Francis Jeffrey (1773 - 1850)
- My words fly up, my thoughts remain below.
Words without thoughts never to heaven go. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous.
- Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
- True poverty does not come from God.
- Yiddish Proverb
- Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- United we stand, divided we fall.
- Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC)
- Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and environmental histories?
- B. F. Skinner (1904 - 1990)
- Anger is brittle fire that consumes and breaks whatever it engulfs.
- Tish Grier, love and hope and sex and dreams, 09-25-06
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