Night Owl 19/Night Owl (The Best of Shareware)(NOPV 19)(1996).ISO/007a/tgquot55.zip/SAYINGS.QTS

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May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions.
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Joey Adams
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Nothing makes a person more productive than the last minute.
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Unknown
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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
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Erica Jong
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The time is right to do what is right.
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Science may never come up with a better office communications system than the
coffee break.
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Earl Wilson
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Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country...
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Unknown
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The human race is an incredible machine, one with great potential, and I
hope that Star Trek has helped to show us what we can be if we believe in
ourselves and our abilities.
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Gene Roddenberry
1921-1991
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The arts reaffirm our humanity.  They are the glue that holds society
together.  While improvement in the three R's may enable us to compete more
effectively in the world economically and technologically, it does not feed
the human spirit.  The most vital stages in the history of any society are
marked by the flourishing of the arts.  And when most material foods have
turned to dust, it is the arts that remain as testimony to the dreams and
passions of the past.
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Harold M. Williams
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When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its
writing.
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Enrique Jardiel Poncela
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Consensus is the negation of leadership.
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Margaret Thatcher
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Humor is not a trick, not jokes.  Humor is the presence in the world - like
grace - and shines on everybody.
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Garrison Keillor
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Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.
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William Dean Howells
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When the mouth stubles, it is worse than the foot.
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West African Proverb
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There are no limits on our future if we don't put limits on our people.
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Jack Kemp
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Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.
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Rita Dove
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The prime of life is that fleeting time between green and over-ripe.
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Cullen Hightower
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I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in
what direction we are moving.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Love is the most important ingredient of success.  Without it your life
echoes emptiness.  With it, your life vibrates warmth and meaning.
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Unknown
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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even
touched.  They must be felt with the heart!
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Helen Keller
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What is man without beasts?  If all the beasts are gone, men would die from
a great loneliness of the spirit.  For whatever happens to the beasts soon
happens to man.
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Chief Seattle
1854
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Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
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C. Archie Danielson
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To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added
to your own - this is happiness.
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J. B. Priestley
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The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
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Marcus Aurelius
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It's better to be boldy decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at
length and be right to late.
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Marilyn Moats Kennedy,
"Across the Board"
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Today's greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.
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Tom Wilson,
Universal Press Syndicate
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Dollars have never been known to produce character, and character will never
be produced by money.
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W.K. Kellogg
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Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
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Colin Powell
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In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything.  In the midst of
great anger, do not answer anyone's letter.
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Chinese proverb
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Just as iron rusts from disuse, ever so does inaction spoil the intellect.
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Leonardo da Vinci
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You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note.
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Doug Floyd
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While intelligent people can often simplify the complex, a fool is more
likely to complicate the simple.
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Gerald W. Grumet, M.D.
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God gives every bird his worm, but he does not throw it into the nest.
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Swedish proverb
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The best things in life aren't things.
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Art Buchwald
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit.  We become just by doing
just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
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Aristotle
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Trust isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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Nadine Gordimer
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A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.
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Martin Farquhar Tupper
1810-1889
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Keep high aspirations, moderate expectations and small needs.
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H. Stein
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Luck is not chance, it's toil.  Fortune's expensive smile is earned.
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Emily Dickinson
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The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being
either proven right or pleasantly surprised.
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George F. Will,
The Leveling Wind
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Country music is three chords and the truth.
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Harlan Howard
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It's not the hand that signs the laws that holds the destiny of America.
It's the hand that casts the ballot.
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Harry Truman
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If you never budge, don't expect a push.
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Malcolm S. Forbes
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Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.
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Mark Helprin,
The Wall Street Journal
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It's surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the
time.
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Barbara Kingsolver,
Animal Dreams
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Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual
wealth of the world.
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George Eliot
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What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to
what lies within us.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Education is the vaccine for violence.
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Edward James Olmos
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Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
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James A. Michener,
Chesapeake
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How rare and wonderful is the flash of a moment when we realize we have
discovered a friend.
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William Rotsler
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Prayer is less about changing the world than it is about changing ourselves.
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David J. Wolpe
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The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the
impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.
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Pearl S. Buck
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A hero is someone we can admire without apology.
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Kitty Kelley,
New York Times
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The difference between reality and fiction?  Fiction has to make sense.
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Tom Clancy,
"Larry King Live" on CNN
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Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the
hardwork you already did.
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Newt Gingrich
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It is easy to sit up and take notice.  What is difficult is getting up and
taking action.
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Al Batt
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When the search for truth is confused with political advocacy, the pursuit
of knowledge is reduced to the quest for power.
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Alston Chase,
In a Dark Wood
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God has been so lavish in his gifts that you can lose some priceless ones,
the equivalent of whole kingdoms, and still be indecently rich.
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Wilfrid Sheed,
In Love With Daylight
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Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.
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An Wang,
Lessons: An Autobiography
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When you teach your son, you teach your son's son.
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The Talmud
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Man is harder than iron, stronger than stone and more fragile than a rose.
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Turkish proverb
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Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
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George Eliot,
Silas Marner
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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of
whatever a body is not obliged to do.
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Mark Twain,
The Adventues of Tom Sawyer
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Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of
their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.
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John Ruskin
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The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention.
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Richard Moss, M.D.
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While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.
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John L. Mason,
An Enemy Called Average
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It is one thing to learn about the past; it is another to wallow in it.
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Kenneth Auchincloss
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My father always told me, "Find a job you love and you'll never have to work
a day in your life."
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Jim Fox
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He who sings frightens away his ills.
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Cervantes
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The difference between a helping hand and on outstretched palm is a twist of
the wrist.
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Laurence Leamer,
King of the Night
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If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
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Tom Peters,
The Pursuit of Wow!
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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his
point of view.
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Harper Lee,
To Kill a Mockingbird
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Big doesn't necessarily mean better.  Sunflowers aren't better than violets.
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Edna Ferber,
Giant
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Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky,
Notes From Underground
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The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
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Lucille S. Harper
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A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more
in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and
by moonlight.
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Robertson Davies
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The great man is he who does not lose his child-heart.
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Mencius
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Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it forgoes
revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
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E. H. Chapin
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He that loves reading has everything within his reach.
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William Godwin
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Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which believe the idea that
things cannot be changed.
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Tom Clancy,
Debt of Honor
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Often the best way to win is to forget to keep score.
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Marianne Espinosa
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Marriage is somewhat like undertaking a Lego project without instructions.
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Ammunni Bala Subramanian
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What's real in politics is what the voters decide is real.
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Ben J. Wattenberg,
Values Matter Most
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Kindness is more important than wisdom, and recognition of this is the
beginning of wisdom.
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Theodore Isaac Rubin, M.D.,
One to One
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There are no menial jobs, unly menial attitudes.
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William J. Bennett,
The Book of Virtues
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Anyone without a sense of humor is at the mercy of everyone else.
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William Rotsler
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He ho can't endure the bad will not like to see the good.
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Yiddish Proverb
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The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their
mother.
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Theodore M. Hesburgh
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I always prefer to believe the best of everbody - it saves so much trouble.
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Rudyard Kipling
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The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.
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Merry Browne
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The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more
people than all the wars in history.
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Carl Rowan
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We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean.  But
the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.
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Mother Teresa
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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do.  The
hard part is doing it.
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Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf
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Being American is not a matter of birth.  We must practice it every day,
lest we become something else.
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Malcolm Wallop,
Imprimis
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Art is the signature of civilization.
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Beverly Sills
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The hero reveals the possibilities of human nature; the celebrity reveals
the possibilities of the media.
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Daniel J. Boorstin,
The Image
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Life shrinks of expands in proportion to one's courage.
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Anais Nin
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Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be
seperated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone
who comes between them.
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Sydney Smith
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A sense of shame is not a bad moral compass.
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Colin Powell,
My American Jounrey
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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Shakespeare
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Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.
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Charles R. Swindoll,
The Strong Family
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When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer
take responsibility for themselves.
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George Pataki
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Time is slippery.
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Kim Linder
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Wherever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous
decision.
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Peter Drucker
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He who is afraid to ask is ashamed of learning.
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Danish proverb
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You can measure a man by the opposition it takes to discourage him.
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Robert C. Savage,
Life Lessons
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All sunshine makes a desert.
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Arabic proverb
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Say what you have to say, not what you ought.
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Henry David Thoreau
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