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- The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.
- Richard Bach, Illusions [1977]
- Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller (1880 - 1968), The Open Door (1957)
- The nicest thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.
- Ken Olsen (1926 - ), founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977
- As a man can drink water from any side of a full tank, so the skilled theologian can wrest from any scripture that which will serve his purpose.
- Bhagavad Gita (250 BC - 250 AD)
- Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed people can change the world: indeed it's the only thing that ever has!
- Margaret Mead (1901 - 1978)
- God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: "This is my country."
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), letter to David Hartley, December 4, 1789
- An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight. . . The truly wise person is colorblind.
- Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
- Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves.
- Thomas S. Szasz
- You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.
- Heraclitus of Ephesus
- People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
- Frederick Douglas
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