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- Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of them become real as you can.
- Frank W. Woolworth
- Stupid people always think they are right. Wise people listen to advice.
- Proverbs 12:15
- There is only one success- to be able to spend your life in your own way.
- Unknown
- Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably will themselves not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.
- Daniel Burnham
- In America, anyone can become president. That's one of the risks you take.
- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965)
- How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD)
- Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
- Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773)
- The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not, the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you "come to terms with" only to discover that they are still there. The real questions refuse to be placated. They barge into your life at the times when it seems most important for them to stay away. They are the questions asked most frequently and answered most inadequately, the ones that reveal their true natures slowly, reluctantly, most often against your will.
- Ingrid Bengis
- If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around you own.
- Emerson
- If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet.
- Keith Richards
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