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- Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller (1880 - 1968), My Religion, 1927
- Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.
- Dorothy L. Sayers (1893 - 1957), The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club, 1928
- It never pays to deal with the flyweights of the world. They take far too much pleasure in thwarting you at every turn.
- Sue Grafton (1940 - ), 'H' Is for Homicide, 1991
- The trouble in corporate America is that too many people with too much power live in a box (their home), then travel the same road every day to another box (their office).
- Faith Popcorn, The Popcorn Report, 1991
- I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life....Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
- Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818), letter to her sister, Mary Smith Cranch, 1784
- Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
- Gertrude Stein (1874 - 1946), Everybody's Autobiography, 1937
- Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
- Malcolm X (1925 - 1965), Malcolm X Speaks, 1965
- Tears may be dried up, but the heart - never.
- Marguerite de Valois
- Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
- Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)
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