Excerpts of Citations
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Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?
~Frank Scully
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Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.
~George Sand
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The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.
~William Safire
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Nothing fails like success.
~Gerald Nachman
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Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
~Isaac Asimov
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Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
~Epictetus
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Charity is, perhaps, in many ways a misunderstood word. We often
equate charity with visiting the sick, taking in casseroles to those
in need, or sharing our excess with those who are les...~Marvin J. Ashton
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When superior people hear of the Way, they carry it out with diligence. When middling people hear of the Way, it sometimes seems to be there, sometimes not. When lesser people hear of the Way, they...
~Lao-tzu
from Tao Te Ching -
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
~Anais Nin
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No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.
~Theodore Roosevelt
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All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
~Arthur Schopenhauer
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Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
~Lao-tzu
from Tao Te Ching -
The more you are motivated by love, the more fearless and free your actions will be.
~Katherine Mansfield
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Anything is one of a million paths. Therefore, a warrior must always keep in mind that a path is only a path; if he feels that he should not follow it, he must not stay with it under any conditions...
~Carlos Castaneda
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Once a man worries, he clings to anything out of desperation; and once he clings he is bound to get exhausted or to exhaust whomever or whatever he is clinging to. A warrior-hunter, on the other ha...
~Carlos Castaneda
from Journey to Ixtlan