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- Every oak tree started out as a couple of nuts who decided to stand their ground.
- Unknown
- Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.
- Chief Seattle
- The essence of true friendship is to make allowances for another's little lapses.
- David Storey
- It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals.
- Charles Kuralt
- The human brain is like a railroad freight car -- guaranteed to have a certain capacity but often running empty.
- Unknown
- They copied all they could follow
but they couldn't copy my mind
so I left them sweating and stealing
a year and a half behind. - Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936)
- Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.
- Robert Anton Wilson
- If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.
- Anais Nin (1903 - 1977)
- Before the beginning of great brilliance, there must be chaos. Before a brilliant person begins something great, they must look foolish in the crowd.
- From the I Ching
- Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
- P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
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