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The following quotes were collected by Bill Swain.
Thank you, Bill, for the contribution to PRISM Guide!

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Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
                                        -Mark Twain
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Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to
complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them
by what is deepest in themselves.
                                        -Pierre Teilhard DeChardin
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Awareness brings understanding, because there is no condemnation
or identification but silent observation.  If I want to understand
something, I must observe, I must not criticize, I must not
condemn, I must not pursue it as a pleasure or avoid it as a
non-pleasure.
                               -- Krishnamurti
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With fame I become more and more stupid which, of course, is a
very common phenomenon.
                              -- Albert Einstein
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More and more I come to value charity and love of one's fellow
being above everything else.
                              -- Albert Einstein
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Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.
                                                --Albert Einstein
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Imagination is more important than knowledge.
                                                --Albert Einstein
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It is strange to be known so universally and yet be so lonely.
                                                --Albert Einstein
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A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives a rose.
                         -old Chinese proverb
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Many times a day I realize how much my own outer and inner life
is built upon the labors of my fellowman, both living and dead, and
how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as
much as I have received.  My peace of mind is often troubled by the
depressing sense that I have borrowed too heavily from the work of
other men.
                              -- Albert Einstein
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The most beautiful and most profound emotion we can experience is
the sensation of the mystical.  It is the source of all true
science.
                              -- Albert Einstein
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Nothing is of more importance for the public welfare, than to form
and train up youth in wisdom and virtue.  Wise and good men are the
strength of a state far more than riches or arms.
                         -Ben Franklin
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Our attitudes control our lives, attitudes are a secret power
working 24 hours a day, for good or bad.  It is of paramount
importance that we know how to harness and control this great
force.
                              -- Charles Simmons
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If you would grow great and stately, you must try to walk sedately.

                              -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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The only way to have a friend is to be one.
                         -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There is no failure except in no longer trying.
                              -- Elbert Hubbard
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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man -- and I will show you a
failure.
                              -- Thomas Alva Edison
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Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through
failure.
                              -- William Saroyan
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There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds
the job.
                              -- Dr. George Crane
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My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while
learning to see things from the plant's point of view.
                               --H. Fred Ale
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A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
                               -- Samuel Johnson
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When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty.  I
think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if
the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
                              -- Buckminster Fuller
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We are inclined to believe those we do not know, because they
have never deceived us.
                               -- Samuel Johnson
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The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing
is to be taken too seriously.
                              -- Nicholas Murray Butler
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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.
                              -- Mignon McLaughlin
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Integrity has no need of rules.
                              -- Albert Camus
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A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he
describes another's.
                              -- Jean Paul Richter
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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just
watch what they do.
                               -- Andrew Carnegie
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Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
                              -- Oscar Wilde.
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The only completely consistent people are the dead.
                              -- Aldous Huxley
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The only man who can change his mind is a man that's got one.
                              -- Edward Noyes Westcott
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There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe
everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.

                              -- Alfred Korzybski
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Egotism is nature's compensation for mediocrity.
                              -- L.A. Safian
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There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it and the rest of
us.
                              -- Laurence J. Peter
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Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
                               -- Frances Bacon
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A man convinced against his will is not convinced.
                               -- Laurence J. Peter
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He who will not reason, is a bigot;  he who cannot is a fool;  and
he who dares not is a slave.
                              -- Sir William Drummond
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I would rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have
one.
                               -- Marcus Porcius Cato
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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
                              -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest
willing to let them.
                               -- Robert Frost
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... my sense of my own importance to myself is tremendous. I am all
that I have, to work with, to play with, to suffer and to enjoy.
It is not the eyes of others that I am wary of, but my own.
                               -- Noel Coward
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If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and
endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with
a success unexpected in common hours.
                               -- Henry David Thoreau
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You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach
him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning
process as long as he lives.
                               -- Clay P. Bedford
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When I look back on all these worries I remember the story of the
old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble
in his life, most of which never happened.
                               -- Winston Churchill
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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable
part of happiness.
                              -- Bertrand Russell
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The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not
necessarily require happiness.
                              -- William Saroyan
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I expect to pass through life but once.  If therefore, there be
any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow
being,let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not
pass this way again.
                              -- William Penn
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One of the saddest experiences which can come to a human being is
to awaken, gray-haired and wrinkled, near the close of an
unproductive career, to the fact that all through the years he has
been using only a small part of himself.
                               -- V.W. Burrows
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Power may justly be compared to a great river; while kept within
its bounds it is both beautiful and useful, but when it overflows
its banks, it is then too impetuous to be stemmed; it bears down
all before it, and brings destruction and desolation wherever it
comes.
                               -- Andrew Hamilton
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The future lies in the hands of those who are able to give the
coming generation good reasons to live and hope.
                              -- Pierre Teilhard DeChardin
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The most fruitful developments in the history of human thinking
happen whenever two different kinds of thinking meet.
                              -- Werner Heisenberg
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If you want your judgment to be accepted, express it coolly and
without passion.
                               -- Arthur Schopenhauer
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There is no permanent and unchangeable I.
                               -- Gurdjieff
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The hardest knife ill-used doth lose its edge.
                               -- Shakespeare
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To compromise in a matter is to decide. To postpone and evade a
decision is to decide.  To hide the matter is to decide. There are
a thousand ways of saying no, one way of saying yes, and no way of
saying anything else.
                               -- Gregory Vlastos
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The most successful managers are not necessarily those who work
hardest or longest, or even those who have the best financial or
production skills.  What determines success at the highest levels
is self-knowledge -- a manager's completeness as a human being.
                               -- Eliza Collins
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The problem of Productivity will not be resolved with tremendous
investment in R&D and systems. It will only be remedied when we
learn how to manage people in such a way that they can work
together more effectively.
                               -- William Ouchi
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You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him discover it
within himself.
                              -- Galileo
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For unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future
is a hoax. There is no point whatever in making plans for a future
which you will never be able to enjoy.  When your plans mature, you
will still be living for some other future beyond.  You will never,
never be able to sit back with full contentment and say, "Now, I've
arrived!"  Your entire education has deprived you of this capacity
because it was preparing you for the future, instead of showing you
how to be alive now.
                               -- Alan Watts
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...when people have light in themselves, it will shine out from
them.  Then we get to know each other as we walk together in the
darkness, without needing to pass our hands over each other's
faces, or to intrude into each other's hearts.
                              -- Albert Schweitzer
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Those who love their own noise are impatient of everything else.
They constantly defile the silence of the forests and the mountains
and the sea.  They bore through silent nature in every direction
with their machines, for fear that the calm world might accuse them
of their own emptiness.
                              -- Thomas Merton
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Keep close to Nature's heart, yourself; and break clear away;
once in a while, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods.
Wash your spirit clean...
                              -- John Muir
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As the hand held before the eye hides the tallest mountain, so
this small earthly life hides from our gaze the vast radiance and
secrets of which the world is full, and whoever can take life from
before his eyes, as one takes away one's hand, will see the great
radiance within the world.
                              -- Martin Buber
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As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points
can be a curve.
                              -- Bertolt Brecht
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It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the
obvious.
                               -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Belief is like love; it cannot be compelled; and as any attempt
to compel love produces hate, so it is the attempt to compel belief
which first produces real unbelief.
                              -- Arthur Schopenauer
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A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the
skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content
according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used.
                              -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Sometimes a person has to go a very short distance out of his way
to come back a short distance correctly.
                              -- Edward Albee
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If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry
about it, that's the way we learn.
                               -- Earl Warren
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Most of the change we think we see in life
Is due to truths being in and out of favor.
                              -- Robert Frost
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The truth is that whenever two people love the same thing and
work at it together, their union makes strength; combined, they can
do more than if their separate energies were each striving in a
different direction. By working together one becomes stronger and
the whole is formed...
                              -- Vincent Van Gogh
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Show the young sailor how to sail; but don't so falsify the
compass and the chart that he can sail only in one direction.
                              -- John Fowles
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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad
to worse; as I have found in travelling in a stage-coach, that it
is often a comfort to shift one's position and be bruised in a new
place.
                              -- Washington Irving
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I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the
position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he
has overcome while trying to succeed.
                              -- Booker T. Washington
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...every human being's life in this world is inevitably mixed
with every other life and, no matter what laws we pass, no matter
what precautions we take, unless the people we meet are kindly and
decent and human and liberty-loving, then there is no liberty.
Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and
institutions.
                              -- Clarence Darrow
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If you'll be patient, I'll no more be mad;
That cures us both.
                               -- Shakespeare
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Everyone is given the gift of life, and what a strange gift
it is. If it is preserved jealously and selfishly it impoverishes
and saddens, but if it is spent for others it enriches and
beautifies.
                              -- Ignazio Silone
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There is a well-worn adage that those who set out upon a great
enterprise would do well to count the cost.  I am not sure that
this is always true. I think that some of the greatest enterprises
in this world have been carried out successfully simply because the
people who undertook them did not count the cost...
                               -- Thomas Huxley
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When you reread a classic you do not see more in the book than
you did before; you see more in YOU than there was before.
                               -- Clifton Fadiman
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That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the
time.
                              -- John Stuart Mill
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Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they do
themselves justice, and property will not be in bad hands. In a
free and just commonwealth, property rushes from the idle and
imbecile to the industrious, brave and persevering.
                              -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Encourage a man to say whatever he thinks, and you make the most of
him; for difficult questions, where the mind needs all its powers,
there should be no burdensome `caution' in giving out the results.
                              -- Alexander Bain
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I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe
that people are really good at heart.
                              -- Anne Frank
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It is not a personal affront to you when someone is being
discordant, it is a measure of his pain. He's showing you how much
he hurts, and how much compassion he needs.
                              -- Thaddeus Golas
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The real price of every thing, what every thing really costs to the
man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring
it.
                              -- Adam Smith
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I don't like to talk about convictions.  I'm never sure I'm telling
the truth.
                              -- Lillian Hellman
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When people don't act upon the knowledge they possess it can mean
only one thing: they don't really believe it.
                              -- Ashley Montagu
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It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to
carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is
far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium
through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the
quality of the day, that is the highest of the arts.
                              -- Henry David Thoreau
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Stand porter at the door of thought.  Admitting only such
conclusions as you wish realized in bodily results, you will
control yourself harmoniously.
                              -- Mary Baker Eddy
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Leisure is the loveliest thing in the world when one doesn't suffer
from it.
                              -- Edgar Degas
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A man without appetite cannot be called virtuous because he does
not rule desires that never molest him.
                               -- Edward Dahlberg
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Our problems are not here for us to solve them but for them to
solve us.
                              -- Salvador de Madariaga
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...it is better to fail in originality than to succeed in
imitation.  He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be
great.  Failure is the true test of greatness. And if it be said
that continual success is a proof that a man wisely knows his
powers, it is only to be added that, in that case, he knows them to
be small.
                              -- Herman Melville
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There isn't so very much difference, after all, between the heights
of stumbling blocks and stepping stones.  Whether they are to serve
as something to climb up over or fall down over depends upon our
own mood as we approach them.
                              -- Lloyd C. Douglas
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He who angers you conquers you.
                               -- Elizabeth Kenny
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The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing
is a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because
it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good
philosophy.  Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
                               -- John W. Gardner
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Here the ways of men part: if you wish to strive for peace of soul
and pleasure, then believe; if you wish to be a devotee of truth,
then inquire...
                              -- Freidrich Nietzsche
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Good people do a great deal of harm in the world. Certainly the
greatest harm they do is that they make badness of such
extraordinary importance.  It is absurd to divide people into good
and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
                               -- Oscar Wilde
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Do not select a life, but make the one you have stretch
out...commit yourself completely.  Then, show equal strength in
accepting both yes and no.
                              -- Albert Camus
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If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything
is ready, we shall never begin.
                              -- Ivan Turgenev
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The man of action is he in whom mental images have the strongest
tendency to become real.
                              -- Alphonse Daudet
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Unthankfulness is theft.
                              -- Martin Luther
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The passing of an ordinary man is sad.  The passing of a great
man is tragic, and doubly tragic when the greatness passes before
the man does.
                              -- Harpo Marx
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Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy
which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before
children.
                              -- Kahlil Gibran
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Give a man a few crumbs and he will appreciate them. Give him a
cake and he will complain about the flavoring.
                              -- Giles French
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If your knowledge teaches you not the value of things, and frees
you not from the bondage to matter, you shall never come near the
throne of Truth.
                              -- Kahlil Gibran
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Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you
have.
                              -- Emile Chartier
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A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work
and done
his best; but that he has done otherwise shall give him no peace.
                              -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape 100 days
of sorrow.
                              -- Chinese Proverb
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Few men can afford to be angry.
                              -- Edmund Burke
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A man who cannot command his temper should not think of being a man
of business.
                              -- Lord Chesterfield
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Few get credit for thinking quietly and efficiently.
                               -- William Feather
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When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry.
                              -- Thomas Haliburton
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Anger is momentary madness.
                               -- Horace
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The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly.
                              -- Michael Faraday
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Anger blows out the lamp of the mind.  In the examination of a
great and important question, every one should be serene,
slow-pulsed and calm.
                              -- Robert Ingersoll
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He that has no patience has nothing at all.
                               -- Italian Proverb
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The worst-tempered people I've ever met were people who knew they
were wrong.
                              -- Wilson Mizner
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When I am angry with myself, I criticize others.
                               -- E.W. Howe
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Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.
                              -- Benjamin Franklin
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To strike out right and left against the mist never clears the
vision; but to lift your head above it is a sovereign panacea.
                               -- Mary Baker Eddy
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It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if
you live near him.
                               -- J.R.R. Tolkein
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If you want your judgment to be accepted, express it coolly and
without passion.
                               -- Arthur Schopenhauer
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Patience is the companion of wisdom.
                              -- Saint Augustine
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Simplicity of character is the natural result of profound thought
                              --Fortune Cookie

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Your present plans are going to succeed.
                              --Fortune Cookie

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Failure is a detour not a deadend street.
                              --Anon

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You do not have to be tomorrow what you are today.
                              --Anon

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If you keep doing tomorrow what you are doing today then you will
be doing tomorrow what you are doing today.
                              --Anon

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How easy it is to give up.
                              --Anon

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MTC!!  Make Today Count.
                              --Anon

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There is nothing like victory or defeat to shake the soul and let
the glory out.
                              --Anon

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Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest
to bear are those which never come
                              --Lowell
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Let us be thankful for the fools.  But for them the rest of us
could not succeed.
                              --Twain

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To speak wisely may not always be easy, but not to speak ill
requires only silence.
                              --Unknown

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Better a little with righteousness than much gain with injustice.
                              --Proverbs 16:8 NIV

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Leisure is a beautiful garment, but it will not do for constant
wear.
                              --Unknown

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The true art of salesmanship is to sell something at a price that
has a profit in it.  A price that the quality and selling value of
your article demands.  Anyone can give goods away.
                              --Unknown

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Success is never final, and failure is never fatal.
                              --Unknown

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That man is idle who does less than he can.
                              --Unknown

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You cannot drift or coast up.
                              --Unknown

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Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
                              --Cowper

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Prosperity is not without many fears
and distastes; and adversity is not without
comforts and hopes.
                              --Bacon

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The fear of the Lord teaches a man wisdom,
and humility comes before honor.
                              --Proverbs 15:33


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Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand.  The Sun's
rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
                              --Bell

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The men who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who
encourage more than criticize.
                              --Harrison

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Work is doing what you now enjoy for the sake of a future which you
clearly see and desire.  Drudgery is doing under strain what you
don't now enjoy and for no end that you can now appreciate.
                              --Cabot

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Work is work if you're paid to do it, and it's pleasure if you pay
to be allowed to do it.
                              --Dunne

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The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it, but
what he becomes by it.
                              --Ruskin

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Most people do things because they have to.  Those that get ahead
do things because they don't have to.
                              --Unknown

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Strange how much you've got to know before you know how little you
know.
                              --Unknown

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Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
                              --Edison

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The real leader has no need to lead--he is content to point the
way.
                              --Miller

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To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we
do not know, that is true knowledge.
                              --Thoreau





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Wisdom is knowing what to do next,
Skill is knowing how to do it,
and Virtue is doing it.
                              --Jordon

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The day returns and brings us the petty round of irritating
concerns and duties.  Help us to perform them with laughter and
kind faces; help us to play the man; let cheerfulness abound with
industry.  Give us to go blithely on our business all this day,
bring us to our resting beds weary and content and undishonored;
and grant us in the end the gift of sleep.
                              --Stephenson

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He whose pants wear out before his shoes is making too many
contacts at the wrong places..
                              --Unknown

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If you won't plow in the cold,
you won't eat at the harvest
                              --Proverbs 204

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Don't pick up any
yesterday thoughts.
                              --Laverne Smith

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