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- One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.
- Etty Hilsum
- We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.
- Walter Kerr
- I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims. They have undertaken to build a tower, and spend no more labor on the foundation than would be necessary to erect a hut.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
- George Washington (1732 - 1799)
- I don't know who my grandfather was; I'm much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
- Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey "people." People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war.... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest....
- C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963), The Abolition of Man
- Live life to the fullest.
- Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961)
- The price of greatness is responsibility.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
- Dale Carnegie
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