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- 'Tisn't life that matters! 'Tis the courage you bring to it.
- Sir Hugh Walpole
- For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin -- real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way. Something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.
- Fr. Alfred D'Souza
- You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.
- M. Scott Peck
- No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself.
- Greville
- I know [patriotism] exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided by a prospect of interest, or some reward.
- George Washington (1732 - 1799)
- The most common of all antagonisms arises from a man's taking a seat beside you on the train, a seat to which he is completely entitled.
- Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
- No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend.
- Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
- Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
- Emerson
- We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
- Longfellow
- Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.
- Danny Kaye (1913 - 1987)
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