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First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.
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Helmuth von Moltke (1800 - 1891)
Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth.
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Johann Georg von Zimmermann
Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn't start a conversation.
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Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.
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Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870)
You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.
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Woody Allen (1935 - )
When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head!
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William Blake (1757 - 1827)
Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.
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George Sand (1804 - 1876)
Sometimes people do things that hurt and it's not because they mean to. They just do. It doesn't necessarily have anything to do with you, but you end up hurt because of it.
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Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 08-23-05
There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
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Booker T. Washington (1856 - 1915)
It is the letter not sent that is often the most valuable.
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Melanie Benjamin, Alice I Have Been, 2010
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
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Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
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Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957)
How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers' names.
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Alice Walker (1944 - ), O Magazine, May 2003
Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters; and sounds are quite innoxious, or most distressing, by their sort rather than their quantity.
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Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.
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Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
Anything too stupid to be said is sung.
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Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.
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Anonymous, often attributed to Dan Quayle
What I am actually saying is that we need to be willing to let our intuition guide us, and then be willing to follow that guidance directly and fearlessly.
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Shakti Gawain
It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.
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Jerry Seinfeld (1954 - )
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
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Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
The Devil's Dictionary Contributed Quotations

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