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- Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give -- which is everything
- Unknown
- Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey "people." People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war.... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest....
- C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963), The Abolition of Man
- In order to write about life, first you must live it!
- Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961)
- Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
- Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933)
- Efficiency is intelligent laziness.
- David Dunham
- The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
- Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
- A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service.
- Georges Pomidou
- I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy.
- Ursula K. LeGuin
- We've gotten to the point where everybody's got a right and nobody's got a responsibility.
- Newton Minow, chairman of the FCC
- If you want to succeed, you'd better look as if you mean business.
- Jeanne Holm
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