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- Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but that mark of a fake messiah.
- Richard Bach
- Perpetual worry will get you to one place ahead of time - the cemetery.
- Author Unknown
- It would take battalions of angels to protect us from our dreaded dangers, though in a long lifetime few of the dangers come to anything.
- Author Unknown
- To bring one's self to a frame of mind and to the proper energy to accomplish things that require plain hard work continuously is the one big battle that everyone has. When this battle is won for all time, then everything is easy.
- Thomas A. Buckner
- He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.
- Johann Kaspar Lavater
- A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
- Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
- Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
- Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.
- Miguel De Cervantes (1547 - 1616)
- It cost about 75 cents to kill a man in Ceasar's time. The price rose to about $3,000 per man during the Napoleonic wars; to $5,000 in the American Civil War; and then to $21,000 per man in World War I. Estimates for the future wars indicate that it may cost the warring countries not less than $50,000 for each man killed.
- Senator Homer T. Bone
- Understand clearly that when a great need appears a great use appears also; when there is a small need there is small use; it is obvious, then, that full use is made of all things at all times according to the necessity thereof.
- Dogen Zenji
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