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- The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.
- Israel Zangwill
- The effect of one upright individual is incalculable.
- Oscar Arias
- Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined.
- Patrick Henry (1736 - 1799)
- What's really important in life? Sitting on a beach? Looking at television eight hours a day? I think we have to appreciate that we're alive for only a limited period of time, and we'll spend most of our lives working. That being the case, I believe one of the most important priorities is to do whatever we do as well as we can. We should take pride in that.
- Victor Kiam
- A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.
- Paul Valery (1871 - 1945)
- Perhaps one day this too will be pleasant to remember.
- Unknown
- My illness is due to my doctor's insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies.
- W. C. Fields (1880 - 1946)
- Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
- George William Curtis
- Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906 - 1945)
- The atom, being for all practical purposes the stable unit of the physical plane, is a constantly changing vortex of reactions.
- Unknown
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