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- Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
- Stephen Leacock (1869 - 1944)
- To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
- Tom Robbins (1936 - )
- Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
- Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)
- When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open, and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.
- Michael Bridge
- Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.
- Margaret Young
- Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.
- James M. Barrie (1860 - 1937)
- The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.
- Harold Taylor
- Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.
- George Washington (1732 - 1799)
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