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Whitney Young Jr.


It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.

Jeff Melvoin


George Washington had a vision for this country. Was it three days of uninterrupted shopping

Legouve


A brother is a friend given by Nature.

Morrie Schwartz, "Tuesdays with Morrie"


When you learn how to die, you learn how to live.

Leonardo da Vinci


When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.

H. L. Mencken


Henry James would have been vastly improved as a novelist by a few whiffs of the Chicago stockyard.

William Shakespeare


Beware Of entrance to a quarrel but being in, Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee. Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy rich, not gaudy For the apparel oft proclaims the man.

Rick Reilly


Golf is the cruelest game, because eventually it will drag you out in front of the whole school, take your lunch money and slap you around.

Lily Tomlin


Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.

Kurt Vonnegut, "Cold Turkey", In These Times, May 10, 2004


There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don�t know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.

William James


A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful in itself. He breaks his engagements, leaves his letters unanswered, neglects his family duties incorrigibly, because he is powerless to turn his attention down and back from those more interesting trains of imagery with which his genius constantly occupies his mind.

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William James


There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

Alvin Toffler


Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.

Sloan Wilson


Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

Virgil


Death's brother, Sleep.

Rosalynn Carter


You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.

Jacob Bronowski, 1976


The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.

Joe Orton


I'd the upbringing a nun would envy and that's the truth. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body.

Lois McMaster Bujold, Mirror Dance, 1994, p. 287


Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same.

Harry S Truman


It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

A. G. Buckham


Monotony is the awful reward of the careful.

Napoleon Hill


Any ideas, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

Made


Ricky Max, ah, one more thing, ah ... who am I dropping this off to Who gets their hands on this Max That's your per diem. Ricky Yeah, that's my per diem, and who do I give it to Who do I drop it off to

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Theodore Roosevelt


Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

Oliver Wendell Holmes


Every pursuit is great when greatly pursued.

Hugh Downs


A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus


Thoughts give birth to a creative force that is neither elemental nor sidereal. Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow. When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him. For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.

Alfred Adler


There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.

"Swampman" on Quartz


The secret to life is that there is no secret.

Thomas Jefferson, (Notes on Virginia, 1782)


Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

H. L. Mencken


The worshiper is the father of the gods.

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Alexander Woollcott


I have no need of your God-damned sympathy. I only wish to be entertained by some of your grosser reminiscences.

Chief Seattle


There is no death. Only a change of worlds.

Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre


I must dislike those who, whatever I do to please them, persist in disliking me; I must resist those who punish me unjustly.

John Wilson


Oh for a book and a shady nook...

Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays (1950), "Outline of Intellectual Rubbish"


Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

John Keats


What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.

Gary Collins


We can try to avoid making choices by doing nothing, but even that is a decision.

Terence, Andria


Moderation in all things.

A. C. Benson


People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.

Anthony D'Angelo


Become addicted to constant and never-ending self improvement.

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Rachel Carson


For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that you use it so little.

Sigmund Freud


I have found little that is good about human beings. In my experience most of them, on the whole, are trash.

Elain Heffner, O Magazine, May 2003


The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.

Aristotle


Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and, consequently, imperishable.

Austin Phelps


Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire


Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

Joel Rosenberg


I find that we all get more legendary as time goes by. 'Legend' means, basically, 'bullshit.'

Franklin Delano Roosevelt


Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

Franklin D. Roosevelt


The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.

Robert Hutchins


There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.

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