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Loneliness is everything it's cracked up to be.: Alan Alda (1936 - )
If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.: Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931), Encyclopaedia Britannica
That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man - when I could get it - and bear the lash as well! And ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman?: Sojourner Truth (1797 - 1883), Women's Convention, Akron Ohio, 1851
Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided.: John Locke (1632 - 1704)
Science ... warns me to be careful how I adopt a view which jumps with my preconceptions, and to require stronger evidence for such belief than for one to which I was previously hostile. My business is to teach my aspirations to conform themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.: Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
The only time anyone has ever gotten into serious trouble was when he decided he could do nothing about something.: L. Ron Hubbard (1911 - 1986), Book: Dianetics 55
Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today, and you make your tomorrow.: L. Ron Hubbard (1911 - 1986), Book: The Creation of Human Ability
Share your M&Ms. There are bags and bags of them all over the place. If you give them one of yours, even one of the green ones, you will not be lacking. Honust Injun. Now apply this to Time, Concern, Touch, Interest and Being Vulnerable.: Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, 02-14-03
Everything comes to him who waits but a loaned book.: Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.: Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881)

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