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When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
If the people who make the decisions are the people who will also bear the consequences of those decisions, perhaps better decisions will result.: John Abrams, The Company We Keep: Reinventing Small Business for People, Community and Place
You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world.: Sheila Graham
I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure.: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.: James A. Garfield (1831 - 1881)
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Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.: Al Franken, "Oh, the Things I Know", 2002
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If you find serenity and happiness, some people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.: Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997)
You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.: Norman Douglas, South Wind, 1917
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If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run - and often in the short one - the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.: Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ), The Exploration of Space, 1951
Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.: Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD)
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Men who never get carried away should be.: Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990)
Every time you state what you want or believe, you're the first to hear it. It's a message to both you and others about what you think is possible. Don't put a ceiling on yourself.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, December 2003
A specification that will not fit on one page of 8.5x11 inch paper cannot be understood.: Mark Ardis
Mustard's no good without roast beef.: Chico Marx (1891 - 1961)
The things that make us safest from others make us least from ourselves.: Danah Boyd, apophenia, 01-08-07
God is not dead but alive and well and working on a much less ambitious project.: Anonymous, Graffito
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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.: Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)
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Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address.: Lane Olinghouse
Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626), Essays: Of Building, 1623
It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.: Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)