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- No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.
- John Donne (1572 - 1631), Meditation XVII
- Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), Analects
- True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
- Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)
- Logic is like the sword--those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
- Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
- That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another....
- Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000), Charlie Brown
- Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
- Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
- I am prepared to meet anyone, but whether anyone is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.
- Roland Barthes, Esprit
- Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
- The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.
- Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
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