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- Do not expect to arrive at certainty in every subject which you pursue. There are a hundred things wherein we mortals. . . must be content with probability, where our best light and reasoning will reach no farther.
- Isaac Watts
- Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
- Lily Tomlin (1939 - )
- A prudent question is one half of wisdom.
- Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
- The ritual of marriage is not simply a social event; it is a crossing of threads in the fabric of fate. Many strands bring the couple and their families together and spin their lives into a fabric that is woven on their children.
- Portuguese-Jewish Wedding Ceremony
- The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Conduct of Life
- People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
- Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962), My Day
- All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
- Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933)
- To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
- Sun-Tzu (~400 BC)
- No one would be foolish enough to choose war over peace--in peace sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons.
- Croesus of Lydia
- The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
- Robert Maynard Hutchins
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