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Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible.: George Burns (1896 - 1996)
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Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind.: Chinese Proverb
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Good writing takes more than just time; it wants your best moments and the best of you.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com weblog, 10-09-04
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Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness.: Kent Nerburn
The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.: Herbert Agar
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When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.: Daniel Raeburn, The New Yorker, 05-01-2006
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I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.: Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924)
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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how…We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.: Agnes de Mille (1909 - 1993)
War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "The Vor Game", 1990
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On a long enough timeline. The survival rate for everyone drops to zero.: Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Fight Club, 1996
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.: Arnold Bennett
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I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Interview, 1995
Golf and sex are about the only things you can enjoy without being good at.: Jimmy Demaret
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It’s helpful to imagine your relationship with him or her as a business relationship rather than a personal one. Just as you wouldn’t share that you’re feeling fat, ugly, and depressed with a client or tell her that you’ve just met the love of your life and you’ve never been happier, these thoughts and feelings should be kept to yourself and not shared with your ex. Finally, as in any good business relationship, be honest and prepared to deliver what you promise.: Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
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Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.: Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (1893 - 1986), in Irving Good, The Scientist Speculates (1962)
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Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.: Arthur Brisbane
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.: Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)
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I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private. This is my teaching, and if this is the doctrine which corrupts the youth, I am a mischievous person.: Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC), quoted by Plato, 'The Death of Socrates'