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- It usually takes a long time to find a shorter way.
- Anonymous
- Dolendi modus, timendi non item.
(To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.) - Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626), Of Seditions and Troubles
- Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- No nation ancient or modern ever lost the liberty of freely speaking, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty in general and became slaves.
- John Peter Zenger
- No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
- Robert Southey (1774 - 1843)
- The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940)
- The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
- I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving -- we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it -- but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
- A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.
- Unknown
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