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Charles Dudley Warner


Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


A weed is just a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.

Julius Caesar, from Plutarch, Lives


It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.

Muhammad Ali


Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

Mel Brooks


If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.

Horace Mann


Character is what God and the angels know of us; reputation is what men and women think of us.

Robert Francis Kennedy


High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make.

Jawaharlal Nehru


Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.

Oscar Wilde


The problem with the common person is that he is so unbearably common!

Ralph Waldo Emerson, (attributed)


Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

Douglas Adams


He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.

Marilyn Manson


We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.

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