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- Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.
- Edgar Watson Howe (1853 - 1937)
- It is men who wait to be selected, and not those who seek, from whom we may expect the most efficient service.
- Ulysses S. Grant (1822 - 1885), Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Chapter 46
- Hope, like the gleaming taper's light,
Adorns and cheers our way; And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray. - Oliver Goldsmith (1730 - 1774)
- There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, in the end, 'Thy will be done.'
- C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)
- I am eternally grateful.. for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on.
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), Timequake, 1997
- I say in speeches that a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit. I am then asked if I know of any artists who pulled that off. I reply, 'The Beatles did'.
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), Timequake, 1997
- In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
[In regione caecorum rex est luscus.] - Desiderius Erasmus (1466 - 1536), Adagia (III, IV, 96)
- When you're part of a team, you stand up for your teammates. Your loyalty is to them. You protect them through good and bad, because they'd do the same for you.
- Yogi Berra (1925 - ), "When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It" -- Ch. 3
- Times of general calamity and confusion create great minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms.
- Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)
- All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
- James Russell Lowell (1819 - 1891)
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