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- What we do is less than a drop in the ocean. But if it were missing, the ocean would lack something.
- Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997)
- A woman is like a tea bag- you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.
- Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)
- For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.
- Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961), in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech
- Give a man a fire and he's warm for the day. But set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.
- Terry Pratchett, Discworld
- He knew the things that were and the things that would be and the things that had been before.
- Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Iliad
- If you are very valiant, it is a god, I think, who gave you this gift.
- Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Iliad
- Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.
- Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Iliad
- A councilor ought not to sleep the whole night through, a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and who has many responsibilities.
- Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Iliad
- A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
- Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Iliad
- The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside.
- Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Iliad
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