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- No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
- Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933)
- Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.
- Bernard Baruch
- Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
- Queen Victoria, in a letter to King Leopold of Belgium, April 4, 1848
- Every extension of knowledge arises from making the conscious the unconscious.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
- The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity.
- Paul Tillich (1886 - 1965)
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.
- Hannah Arendt (1906 - 1975)
- The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
- Tom Robbins (1936 - ), Still Life With Woodpecker
- You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
- Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924)
- For every problem there is a solution which is simple, clean and wrong.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Share everything. Don't take things that aren't yours. Put things back where you found them.
- Robert Fulghum (1937 - )
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