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At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
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Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
A person has three choices in life. You can swim against the tide and get exhausted, or you can tread water and let the tide sweep you away, or you can swim with the tide, and let it take you where it wants you to go.: Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Northern Lights, 1993
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It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.: Jerry Seinfeld (1954 - )
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When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less.: Paul Brown (1908 - 1991)
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.: Maria Schell
A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Society and Solitude: Works and Days, 1870
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.: George Washington (1732 - 1799)
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), message for Jefferson Day, April 13, 1945
It is certainly desirable to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.: Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD), 'Morals,' 100 A.D.
I believe in recovery, and I believe that as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it.: Ann Richards
The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.: Sebastian R. N. Chamfort
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The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.: Clarence Darrow (1857 - 1938)
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[It's] time for the human race to enter the solar system.: Dan Quayle (1947 - )
The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Speech in Indianapolis, April 12, 1959
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Living in a vacuum sucks.: Adrienne E. Gusoff
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.: General Douglas MacArthur (1880 - 1964)
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It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it?: Eleanor H. Porter (1868 - 1920), Pollyanna, 1912
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Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied.: Henry George (1839 - 1897)
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