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There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.: Franklin P. Adams (1881 - 1960)
Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining?: George Wallace
Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.: Simone Weil (1909 - 1943), Gravity and Grace, 1947
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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), quoted in Boswell's Life of Johnson
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Under the greenwood tree who loves to lie with me ... Here shall he see no enemy but winter and rough weather.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), As You Like It, Act II, sc. 5
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Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.: Rita Rudner
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All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience.: Henry Miller (1891 - 1980)
To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.: Cynthia Ozick, O Magazine, September 2002
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The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we have of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.: Quentin Crisp
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"
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Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.: Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933)
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Even the great get greater by doing more of it.: Colleen Wainwright, communitcatrix, 04-10-2006
Your best shot at happiness, self-worth and personal satisfaction - the things that constitute real success - is not in earning as much as you can but in performing as well as you can something that you consider worthwhile.: William Raspberry
The road to hell is paved with adverbs.: Stephen King (1947 - )
Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?: Clarence Darrow (1857 - 1938)
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Actions lie louder than words.: Carolyn Wells
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Better be ill spoken of by one before all than by all before one.: Scottish Proverb
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Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.: Louis L'Amour (1908 - 1988)
Sometimes we do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions not answers.: John Le Carre (1931 - ), Magnus Pym in "A Perfect Spy"