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The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.: Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 - 1896)
To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage.: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
Humility is no substitute for a good personality.: Fran Lebowitz (1950 - ), Metropolitan Life, 1978
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Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
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Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.: Gordon R. Dickson
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We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.: Anna Sewell (1820 - 1878), Black Beauty, 1877
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Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.: Rick Cook, The Wizardry Compiled
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Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date.: Dale Carnegie
Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.: Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870)
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Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.: Pierre Trudeau (1919 - 2000)
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It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.: Lady Bird Johnson (1912 - 2007)
Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you are ready or not, to put this plan into action.: Napoleon Hill
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It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.: A. J. Liebling (1904 - 1963)
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It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.: P. G. Wodehouse (1881 - 1975), The Man Upstairs (1914)
Charity sees the need not the cause.: German Proverb
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If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.: Margaret Fuller (1810 - 1850)
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My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.: Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004), Said during a radio microphone test, 1984
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)