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- The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.
- Andrew Carnegie (1835 - 1919)
- The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
- Folks who never do any more than they are paid for, never get paid more than they do.
- Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
- I still believe that at any time the no-talent police will come and arrest me.
- Mike Myers
- If thou desire to purchase honor with thy wealth, consider first how that wealth became thine; if thy labor got it, let thy wisdom keep it; if oppression found it, let repentance restore it; if thy parent left it, let thy virtues deserve it; so shall thy honor be safer, better and cheaper.
- Francis Quarles (1592 - 1644)
- That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
- You can't surprise a man with a dog.
- Cindy Chupack, Sex and the City, Don't Ask, Don't Tell, 2000
- Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run.
- Margaret Mead (1901 - 1978)
- Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969), From a speech before the American Society of Newspaper Editors, April 16, 1953
- To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
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