Excerpts of Citations
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He who will not economize will have to agonize.
~Confucius
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The joy of a spirit is the measure of its power.
~Ninon de Lenclos
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A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.
~Thomas Hardy
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It is a funny thing about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
~William Somerset Maugham
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I am not young enough to know everything.
~Oscar Wilde
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A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.
~Edward R. Murrow
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Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
~Sydney Smith
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Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a so...
~Harry S Truman
from August 8, 1950 -
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
~William Penn
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You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.
~Mortimer Adler
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Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
~Albert Einstein
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The wisest men follow their own direction.
~Euripides
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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear.
~Mark Twain
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An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.
~Elbert Hubbard
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Things are more like they are now than they have ever been.
~Gerald R. Ford