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Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.
-Khalil Gibran, Arab poet

"Keep away from people who belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
--Mark Twain

"Decide what you think is right and stick to it."
--George Eliot

"If you don't know where you are going, how can you expect to get there?"
--Basil S. Walsh

Decision is a sharp knife that cuts clean and straight; indecision is a dull one that hacks and tears and leaves ragged edges behind it.
Gordon Graham, American motivational speaker

Imagination is more important than knowledge.
-Albert Einstein

"Enthusiasm moves the world."
--J. Balfour

"The trouble with being punctual is that there's nobody there to appreciate it. "
--Franklin P. Jones

"Imagination is the highest kite one can fly."
--Lauren Bacall

"When trouble comes, wise men take to their work; weak men take to the woods."
--Elbert Hubbard

"Wonder rather than doubt is the root of knowledge."
--Abraham Joshua Heschel

"People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like."
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a book review

"The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well. "
--H. T. Leslie

"I'm not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You're as old as you feel."
--Elizabeth Arden

"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; In practice, there is."
-- Chuck Reid

Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying.
-Christian Gellert, (1715-1769) German poet

"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."
-- Isaac Asimov

There's a statistical theory that if you gave a million monkeys typewriters and set them to work, they'd eventually come up with the complete works of Shakespeare. Thanks to the Internet, we now know this isn't true.
-Ian Hart, British actor

"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are
the easiest person to fool."
-- Richard P. Feynman

"How old would you be if you didn't know how old you was?"
--Baseball pitcher Satchel Paige

"Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a
cheese."
--Billie Burke

"She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable
substitute for wit."
-- W. Somerset Maugham

"False modesty is better than none."
--Vilhjalmur Steffanson

Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
- Charles Dickens (1812-1870) English writer

"Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy. "
-- Marshall Field

"Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died."
--Erma Bombeck

We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice -- that is, until we have stopped saying, "It got lost," and say, "I lost it."
-Sydney J. Harris

"He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients -
no, three, I think - yes it was three; I attended their
funerals." - Mark Twain

"The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and doesn't stop until you get into the office." - Robert Frost

Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
-Nathaniel Hawthorne, (1804-1864) American writer

"I took a speed reading course and read 'War and Peace' in twenty
minutes. It involves Russia."
-- Woody Allen

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the
person you are.
-- Anonymous

Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
-Patrick Henry, (1736-1799) American revolutionary and orator

The purpose of life is life.
-- Karl Lagerfeld

"To be successful, the first thing to do is fall in love with your work."
--Sister Mary Lauretta

"There is no such thing as a great talent without great will-power."
--Balzac

"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try."
--Beverly Sills

All forms of fear produce fatigue.
-- Bertrand Russell

"If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking."
-- Lyndon Baines Johnson

"The time for action is past! Now is the time for senseless bickering!"
-- Ashleigh Brilliant

"The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart."
-- Saint Jerome

"You have to endure what you can't change."
--Marie de France

"Everything has been figured out, except how to live."
-- Jean-Paul Sartre

"After twelve years of therapy my psychiatrist said something that brought tears to my eyes. He said, 'No hablo ingles.'"
- Ronnie Shakes

The future is not in the hands of fate, but in ours.
-- Jules Jusserano

"Efficiency is intelligent laziness."
-- David Dunham

"There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead."
-- Arthur Honegger

The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.
-- Henry L. Stimson

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
-- Confucius

"Information Superhighway is really an acronym for 'Interactive Network For Organizing, Retrieving, Manipulating, Accessing And Transferring Information On National Systems, Unleashing Practically Every Rebellious Human Intelligence, Gratifying Hackers, Wiseacres,
And Yahoos'."
-- Keven Kwaku

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us."
-- Helen Keller

Winning isn't everything. Wanting to win is.
-- Catfish Hunter

Some folks never exaggerate--they just remember big.
-- Audrey Snead

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
-- Golda Meir

"Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats."
-- Howard Aiken

Faith that the thing can be done is essential to any great achievement.
-- Thomas N. Carruther

"Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell."
-- Anon.

"May you live every day of your life."
-- Jonathan Swift

A good garden may have some weeds.
-- Thomas Fuller

"What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us."
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

If you see a snake, kill it. Don't appoint a committee on snakes.
-- H. Ross Perot

Elbow grease is the best polish.
-- English Proverb

Lord, when I am wrong, make me willing to change; when I am right, make me easy to live with. So strengthen me that the power if my example will far exceed the authority of my rank.
-- Pauline H. Peters

"Every exit is an entry somewhere."
-- Tom Stoppard

Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed.
-- Corita Kent

"Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out."
-- Richard Nixon

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
-- Francis Bacon

"Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude."
-- Miguel de Unanimo

"If a trainstation is where the train stops, what's a workstation...?"
-- Anon.

"Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them."
-- William Shakespeare

"Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body."
-- George Santayana

"Surely the glory of journalism is its transience."
-- Malcolm Muggeridge

"It's easy to cry 'bug' when the truth is that you've got a complex system and sometimes it takes a while to get all the components to co-exist peacefully."
-- Doug Vargas

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
-- Khalil Gibran

"In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects."
-- J. W. Fulbright

Computers make it easy to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do, don't need to be done.
-- Andy Rooney

"Image creates desire. You will what you imagine."
-- J. G. Gallimore

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.
-- John Maxwell

"Live every day as if it were your last, because one of these days, it will be." -- Jeremy Schwartz

"The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it."
-- Abbie Hoffman

Never let yesterday use up today.
-- Richard H. Nelson

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye."
-- H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
-- Robert Frost

The future comes one day at a time.
-- Dean Acheson

Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
-- Jacob A. Riis

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
-- Menclus

"Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
-- Gandhi

"Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't."
-- Richard Bach

"All life is an experiment."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

"In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled."
-- Paul Eldridge

"Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity."
-- Russell Baker

"Guns don't kill people. I do."
-- Bumper Sticker

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
-- Josh Billings

Every path has its puddle.
-- English Proverb

Either do not attempt at all, or go through with it.
-- Ovid

Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
-- Andre Gide

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
-- William James

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."
-- Dale Carnegie

"Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present."
-- Roger Babson

As long as one keeps searching, the answers come.
-- Joan Baez
"The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have
no standard by which to judge it."
-Carl R. Rogers

"Life is cheap. It's the accessories that kill you."
-- Anon.

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you
please.
-- Mark Twain

If you want to be listened to, you should put time in listening.
-- Marge Piercy

Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.
-- Herbert Gasser

Intelligence is like a river: the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.
-- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
-- Elvis Costello

Adolescence is like a house on moving day -- a temporary mess.
-- Julius Warren

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt

All that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without
the indispensable, and bear the intolerable.
-- Kathleen Norris

You can't expect to win unless you know why you lose.
-- Benjamin Lipson

The true test of character is...how we behave when we don't know what to do.
-- John Holt

Whining is anger through a small opening.
-- Stuart Smalley

In spire of the cost of loving, it's still popular.
-- Kathy Norris

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance."
-- Buddha

"Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be."
-- Kahlil Gibran

"Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious."
-- George Bernard Shaw

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
-- Abraham Lincoln

Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
-- Raymond Lindquist

The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything.
-- Lee Iacocca

"You cannot hold back a good laugh any more than you can the tide. Both are forces of nature."
-- William Rotsler

Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.
-- Lady Bird Johnson

"You can pretend to be serious but you can't pretend to be witty."
-- Sacha Guitry

"Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh."
-- W.H. Auden," The Dyer's Hand

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
-- Christopher Morley

No one knows what he can do until he tries.
-- Publilius Syrus

Courage is the most important of all virtues, because without it we can't practice any other virtue with consistency.
-- Maya Angelou

To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.
-- Eva Young

People who need people are people who don't realize just how annoying people can be.
-- J Wagner (Crabby Road)

Did Mary and Joseph ever get up enough nerve to send Jesus to his room?
-- Bil Keand (Family Circus)

Just because something's toxic doesn't mean it's not tasty.
-- Matthew J. Siske

He who limps still walks.
-- Stanislaw Lec

The most exquisite pleasure is giving pleasure to others.
-- Jean de La Bruyere

Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president and anyone who doesn't can grow can be vice president.
-- Johnny Carson

I'm so insecure, I'm not sure I'm insecure. I worry so much, sometimes I worry... that I don't worry enough.
-- Tim Halpern

Don't curse the darkness--light a candle.
-- Chinese proverb

"Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life in which you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you."
--Fran Lebowitz

Tell a man he is brave, and you help him to become so.
-- Thomas Carlyle

"A difference which makes no difference is not a difference."
-- Mr. Spock

"Open up my head and let me out!"
-- Dave Matthew's Band

No explanation ever explains the necessity of making one.
-- Elbert Hubbard

"There is no happiness for people at the expense of other people."
-- Anwar Sadat

There's much to be said for challenging fate instead of ducking behind it.
-- Diana Trilling

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
-- Vince Lombardi

The mere sense of living is joy enough.
-- Emily Dickinson

God gave burdens, also shoulders.
-- Yiddish proverb

Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest.
-- Thomas Fuller

Life without a friend is death without a witness.
-- Spanish Proverb

"Real programmers don't work from 9 to 5. If any real programmers are around at 9am it's because they were up all night."
-- Anon

It is enough that I am of value to somebody today.
-- Hugh Prather

The most predictable thing about the stock market is the number of experts who take credit for predicting it.
-- Dave Weinbaum

No mind is thoroughly well-organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few months or a few years to change all the tenor of our lives."
-- Kathleen Norris

"Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects."
-- Lester B. Pearson

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
-- Colette

If you're considered a beauty, it's hard to be accepted doing anything but standing around.
-- Cybil Shepard

Today is yesterday's effect and tomorrow's cause.
-- Phillip Gribble

"Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self."
-- Cyril Connolly

"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man."
-- Elbert Hubbard

"Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers."
-- Edward Shepherd Mead

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt

We only do well the things we like doing.
-- Colette

A man is literally what he thinks.
-- James Lane Allen

If you do not find peace in yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.
-- Paula A. Bendry

Freedom lies in being bold.
-- Robert Frost

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
-- Groucho Marx

People are either born hosts or born guests.
-- Sir Max Meerbohm

"Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house."
-- James Thurber

"Fools admire, but men of sense approve."
-- Alexander Pope

Learn to use ten minutes intelligently. It will pay you huge dividends.
-- William A. Irwin

"Doubt whom you will, but never yourself."
-- Christine Bovee

"Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier."
-- Baltasar Gracian

"You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm."
--Colette

"I don't meet competition. I crush it."
--Charles Revson

"Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got."
--Janis Joplin

"It has all been very interesting."
-- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, last words, 1762

Dullness is a misdemeanor.
-- Ethel Wilson

"A specification that will not fit on one page of 8.5x11 inch paper cannot be understood."
-- Mark Ardis

"A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you."
-- Bert Taylor

Pain is never permanent.
-- Saint Theresa of Avila

"Truth is generally the best vindication against slander."
-- Abraham Lincoln, letter to Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, July 18, 1864

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be."
-- Douglas Adams

"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying."
-- Woody Allen

"Never give advice unless asked."
-- German Proverb

"All the world's a cage."
-- Jeanne Phillips

"We aim above the mark to hit the mark."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud."
-Sophocles

"When in doubt wear red."
--Bill Blass

"We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people."
--Arthur Schopenhauer

"The most popular labor-saving device is still money."
--Phyllis George

"Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere may be happy."
-Bumper Sticker

Worry is as useless as a handle on a snowball.
-- Mitzi Chandler

Rule No. 1 is, don't sweat the small stuff. Rule No. 2 is, it's all small stuff.
-- Robert Eliot

You are all you will ever have for certain.
-- June Havoc

"How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to."
-- Goethe

Wise men learn by other men's mistakes, fools by their own.
-- H.G. Bohn

The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash.
-- Anonymous

"I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens."
-- Dwight David Eisenhower

"All the world's a cage."
-- Jeanne Phillips

"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it."
-- Former Vice President Dan Quayle

"I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals."
-- Winston Churchill

"Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons."
-- Bertrand Russell

"Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others."
-- Jonathan Winters

"I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something." -- Jackie Mason

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