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- Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
- Tallulah Bankhead (1903 - 1968)
- Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
- Sidney J. Harris
- Some people make headlines while others make history.
- Philip Elmer-DeWitt, in Time Magazine
- Young people have an almost biological destiny to be hopeful.
- Marshall Ganz, quoted by Sara Rimer in New York Times
- In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
- Aaron Rose
- Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), 'Journals,' 1836
- An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), 'Histoire d'un crime,' 1852
- I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.
- Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972), quoted by Time, June 9, 1975
- Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965), quoted by Human Behavior, May 1978
- Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.
- Sam Rayburn (1882 - 1961), quoted Washingtonian, November 1978
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