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- Young cat, if you keep your eyes open enough, oh, the stuff you would learn! The most wonderful stuff!
- Dr. Seuss (1904 - 1991), Seuss-isms
- Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.
- Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
- Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace!
Where there is hatred let me sow love; Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is doubt, faith; Where there is despair, hope; Where there is darkness, light; Where there is sadness, joy. - Saint Francis of Assisi (1181 - 1226), "Prayer of St Francis" (attributed)
- Some people are that - more than a parent, more than a role model, more than anything less than a religion.
- Margaret Cho, weblog, 05-04-04
- No one tests the depth of a river with both feet.
- African Proverb
- I violated the Noah rule: Predicting rain doesn't count; building arks does.
- Warren Buffett (1930 - )
- Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
- William James (1842 - 1910)
- There are many in the world dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love.
- Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997)
- Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When money ceases to become the means by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of other men. Blood, whips and guns--or dollars. Take your choice--there is no other.
- Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), Atlas Shrugged
- The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.
- John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873), On Liberty
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