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Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
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I wanna hang a map of the world in my house. Then I'm gonna put pins into all the locations that I've traveled to. But first, I'm gonna have to travel to the top two corners of the map so it won't fall down.: Mitch Hedberg (1968 - 2005)
Isn't everyone a part of everyone else?: Budd Schulberg, O Magazine, November 2003
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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.: Niels Bohr (1885 - 1962)
One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.: Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
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Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.: Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999
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Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.: William James (1842 - 1910)
Mothers may still want their sons to grow up to be President, but according to a famous Gallup poll of some years ago, some 73 percent do not want them to become politicians in the process.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Profiles in Courage, 1956
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I was walking down the street wearing glasses when the prescription ran out.: Steven Wright (1955 - )
The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.: Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
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Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.: John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"
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Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.: Marva Collins
There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), Taxation No Tyranny
Surely there comes a time when counting the cost and paying the price aren't things to think about any more. All that matters is value - the ultimate value of what one does.: James Hilton (1900 - 1954)
May I never miss a sunset or a rainbow because I am looking down.: Sara June Parker
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.: Ann Richards
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.: Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849)
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.: Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962), 'This Is My Story,' 1937
Mountains inspire awe in any human person who has a soul. They remind us of our frailty, our unimportance, of the briefness of our span upon this earth. They touch the heavens, and sail serenely at an altitude beyond even the imaginings of a mere mortal.: Elizabeth Aston, The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy, 2005
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