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- I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
- Xenocrates (396 BC - 314 BC)
- Romans, never forget that government is your medium! Be this your art:-to practice men in habit of peace, generosity to the conquered, and firmness against aggressors.
- Virgil (70 BC - 19 BC), Aeneid
- Accidents ruled every cornor of the universe except the chambers of the human heart.
- David Guterson, Snow Falling On Cedars
- Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.
- Dale E. Turner
- He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.
- Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993)
- The peculiar striations that define someone's personality are too numerous to know, no matter how close the observer. A person we think we know can suddenly become someone else when previously hidden strands of his character are called to the fore by circumstance.
- Elliot Perlman, Seven Types of Ambiguity
- Some are born who never need them,
Others still who never read them, signs. - Neil Diamond (1941 - ), Signs
- Evil is always possible, and goodness is eternally difficult.
- Anne Rice (1941 - ), Interview With the Vampire
- I am an expression of the divine, just like a peach is, just like a fish is. I have a right to be this way...I can't apologize for that, nor can I change it, nor do I want to... We will never have to be other than who we are in order to be successful...We realize that we are as ourselves unlimited and our experiences valid. It is for the rest of the world to recognize this, if they choose.
- Alice Walker (1944 - ), Democracy Now Feb. 13, 2006
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