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- No matter how much spin, effort, lunch or dinner you give the media, they will not fail to notice whether you have won or lost.
- Robin Renwick, former British ambassador to the United States
- Homesickness is. . . absolutely nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time. . . You don't really long for another country. You long for something in yourself that you don't have, or haven't been able to find.
- John Cheever, The Stories of John Cheever (1978)
- One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
- Maya Angelou (1928 - )
- To be a well-flavored man is the gift of fortune, but to write or read comes by nature.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- Relationships of trust depend on our willingness to look not only to our own interests, but also the interests of others.
- Peter Farquharson
- History, although sometimes made up of the few acts of the great, is more often shaped by the many acts of the small.
- Mark Yost
- A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad. . . . Freedom is nothing else but a chance to bet better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse.
- Albert Camus (1913 - 1960), Resistance, Rebellion and Death (1960)
- Seek not to follow in the footsteps of men of old; seek what they sought.
- Matsuo Basho
- Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one's self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.
- Thomas Hughes
- We pass the word around; we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry; we meditate over the literature; we play the music; we change our minds; we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.
- Lewis Thomas (1913 - 1993), The Medusa and the Snail (1979)
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