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- The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
- Charles Dudley Warner (1829 - 1900), 'Eleventh Study,' Backlog Studies, 1873
- The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.
- Jim Bishop, New York Journal-American, March 14, 1959
- The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully.
- Epicurus (341 BC - 270 BC), 300 B.C.
- A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.
- Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983), The Passionate State of Mind, 1954
- There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood tomorrow.
- Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), Les Miserables, 1862
- Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD), Meditations, 200 A.D.
- Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), 'Out of My Later Years,' 1950
- It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), 'Treasury for the Free World,' 1946
- If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), inaugural address, January 20, 1961
- I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881), campaign speech at High Wycombe, England, November 27, 1832
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