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- Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
- Harold Wilson (1916 - 1995)
- You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Back to Methuselah" (1921), part 1, act 1
- A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Man and Superman" (1903), act I
- There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Man and Superman" (1903), act 4
- One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "The Apple Cart" (1930), act I
- A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.
- Arthur Brisbane, "The Book of Today"
- I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
- Robert McCloskey, State Department spokesman (attributed)
- The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.
- Herbert Agar
- There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), Taxation No Tyranny
- If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
- Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650)
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