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- No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend.
- Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
- Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves -- to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today.
- Stewart B. Johnson
- In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.
- John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006), Guardian (London, 28 July 1989)
- Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage, and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today, at home and around the world!
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Inaugural Address, 1961
- Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains.
- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965)
- Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
- Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)
- When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- We... anticipate what's to come, then ignore what's actually here.
- Stephan Rechtschaffen, MD, Timeshifting (1996)
- Eternity has nothing to do with the hereafter... This is it... If you don't get it here, you won't get it anywhere. The experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life. Heaven is not the place to have the experience; here's the place to have the experience.
- Joseph Campbell (1904 - 1987)
- The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth--that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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