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- All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence -- and then success is sure.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- Tradition is what you resort to when you don't have the time or the money to do it right.
- Kurt Herbert Alder
- I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.
- Fritz Perls
- The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.
- Paul Fix
- It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
- Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870), Bleak House
- If you don't find it in the index, look very carefully through the entire catalogue.
- Sears, Roebuck, and Co., Consumer's Guide, 1897
- The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered... deeply, ...finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.
- George Washington (1732 - 1799), First Inaugural Address, Apr. 30, 1789
- We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear. We can gain it only if we proceed with the understanding, the confidence, and the courage which flow from conviction.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), Fourth Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1945
- With malice toward none, with charity for all, ...let us strive on to finish the work we are in, ...to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), Second Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1865
- The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -- nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), First Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1933
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