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I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.: Dan Quayle (1947 - ), 5/22/89
The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.: Doug Larson
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Treasure the love you have received above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished.: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
We only do well the things we like doing.: Colette (1873 - 1954), Prisons and Paradise, 1932
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes.: James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.: Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - )
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The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, 'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!': John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
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Resentment is anger directed at others--at what they did or did not do.: Peter McWilliams, Life 101
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.: A. J. Liebling (1904 - 1963)
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Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.: Iris Murdoch (1919 - 1999)
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The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.: Charles Du Bos
Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.: Pearl Buck (1892 - 1973)
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I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.: Emo Phillips
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.: Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)
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There is no glory in the tepid smiles of the thousands. It is better to have the uproarious laughter of the hundreds.: Monica Hesse, The Washington Post, 04-03-12
Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.: Horace (65 BC - 8 BC)
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.: Peter Borden