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One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world. Sentiment is a disgrace, instead of an ornament, unless it lead us to good actions.: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
The more I know of the world, the more am I convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Sense and Sensibility, 1811
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The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.: Malcolm X (1925 - 1965)
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One picture is worth a thousand words.: Fred R. Barnard
Say not, when I have leisure I will study; you may not have leisure.: The Mishnah
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.: Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.: Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
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The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
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We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.: Wernher von Braun (1912 - 1977)
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.: Sir William Preece, chief engineer of the British Post Office, 1876
What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!: Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)
Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.: John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
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At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas.: Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.: Whoopi Goldberg
An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.: Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
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Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.: Francis Quarles (1592 - 1644)
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Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.: John Keats (1795 - 1821)
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It's a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation.: Roberto Benigni (1952 - ), in Newsweek
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Life ain't like books. Books got somebody writin' 'em and tryin' to entertain ya. Life is more like a set of Legos. Unless you take care of 'em, you lose a few pieces and you end up steppin' on 'em with bare feet. You gotta take care of your life.: Laura Moncur (1969 - ), Merriton: 35 Minutes Away From Home, 02-29-12
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Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.: T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965)
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