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- If you cry "Forward!" you must without fail make plain in what direction to go. Don't you see that if, without doing so, you call out the word to both a monk and revolutionary, they will go in directions precisely opposite?
- Anton Chekhov (1860 - 1904)
- May we, in our dealings with all the peoples of the earth, ever speak the truth and serve justice.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)
- Step with care and great tact
And remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act Just never forget to be dexterous and deft And never mix up your right foot with your left. - Dr. Seuss (1904 - 1991), Oh, the Places You'll Go
- Most people believe that if you go in and try to micromanage a forest, it is possible to destroy the very thing that makes it a unique and special place. That's just as true of the Net.
- Glen Raphael
- Speak no evil of an absent friend.
(Non male loquare absenti amico) - Titus Maccius Plautus (254 BC - 184 BC), Trinummus, IV, c. 190 BC
- What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
- Boris Pasternak (1890 - 1960)
- The beauty of daylight-saving time is that it just makes everyone feel sunnier.
- Edward Markey, quoted in Associated Press, July 22, 2005
- A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.
- Jessamyn West (1902 - 1984)
- Quality in a product or service is not what the supplier puts in. It is what the customer gets out and is willing to pay for. A product is not quality because it is hard to make and costs a lot of money, as manufacturers typically believe. This is incompetence. Customers pay only for what is of use to them and gives them value. Nothing else constitutes quality.
- Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)
- The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.
- Maria Montessori (1870 - 1952)
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