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- Proverbs are all very fine when there's nothing to worry you, but when you're in real trouble, they're not a bit of help.
- L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), The Story Girl
- People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.
- Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - )
- I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars; I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.
- Warren Buffett (1930 - )
- It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Pride and Prejudice, first line
- The old lie; Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.
(Sweet and fitting it is to die for the fatherland) - Wilfred Owen, Poem: Dulce et Decorum est.
- Life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis
- e e cummings (1894 - 1962)
- The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others.
- Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919), Labor Day speech at Syracuse, NY, Sept 7, 1903 ("Theodore Rex" - Edmund Morris)
- This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778), Essai sur l'histoire generale et sur les moeurs et l'espirit des nations, 1756, Chapter 70
- If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
- Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.
- Mary Tyler Moore (1936 - )
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