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- Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand-in-hand.
- Unknown
- I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone.
- Javan
- Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.
- Emil Nolde
- Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
- No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself.
- Greville
- I know [patriotism] exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided by a prospect of interest, or some reward.
- George Washington (1732 - 1799)
- Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
- Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)
- In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.
- John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006), Guardian (London, 28 July 1989)
- Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
- Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)
- Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality; it strikes at the root of all domestic happiness, and consigns more than half of the human race to misery.
- Shelley
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