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- Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
- Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
- If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.
- Maria Edgeworth
- Even sheep should have brains enough not to follow the wolf.
- Joseph Goodfield
- It's hard to beat somebody when they don't give up
- Babe Ruth (1895 - 1948)
- But government in which the majority rule in all cases can not be based on justice, even as far as men understand it.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Civil Disobedience
- Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.
- Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989), A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
- A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.
- Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910)
- Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization.
- Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
- At their core, women fear that men will kill them. At their core, men fear that women will laugh at them.
- Gavin de Becker, The Gift of Fear
- Death doesn't really worry me that much, I'm not frightened about it... I just don't want to be there when it happens.
- Woody Allen (1935 - ), The Standup Years
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