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- Ideas must work through the brains and arms of men, or they are no better than dreams.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- There is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
- The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
- Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
- Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act I, Scene 3
- Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.
- Max Frisch
- We're all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another.
- Kenny Ausubel
- Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang the best.
- Unknown
- The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
- Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)
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