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- Aggressive fighting for the right is the greatest sport in the world.
- Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
- Delay is preferable to error.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), Letter to George Washington, May 16, 1792
- An event had happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
- Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797), Speeches... in the Trial of Warren Hastings, May 5, 1789
- I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- Life is one long process of getting tired.
- Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902), Notebooks, 1912
- Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), Rasselas, 1759
- A person may cause evil to others not only by his action but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
- John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)
- Somewhere deep down we know that in the final analysis we do decide things and that even our decisions to let someone else decide are really our decisions, however pusillanimous.
- Harvey Cox, On Not Leaving It to the Snake, 1967
- The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- By my rambling digressions I perceive myself to be growing old.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
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