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It was the best
of times, it was the worst of times.
Charles Dickens
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Where is the wisdom
we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information.
T.S. Eliot
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Nine tenths of
wisdom consists of being wise in time.
Theodore Roosevelt
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He who fears he
will suffer, already suffers from his fear.
Michel Eyquen Montaigne
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None but a coward
dares to boast that he has never known fear.
Marshall Ferdinand Foch
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The young man
who has not wept is a savage,
and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.
George Santayana
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Those who can't
laugh at themselves leave the job to others.
Bits & Pieces
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Where all men
think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippman
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It is a strange
desire to seek power and to lose liberty.
Francis Bacon
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More than anytime
in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to
despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction.
Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
Woody Allen
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People want chaos
for about five minutes. After that
they want a back rub and some money.
Bruce Sterling
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People don’t tell
you when they stop trusting you.
Gerald Weinberg
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Creative minds
have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
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The enemies of
the future are always the very nicest people.
Christopher Morely
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We are not ruthless
vagabonds. We are on our way to power.
Paddy Ashdown
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Great geniuses
have the shortest biographies.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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One should care
not to have lived long as to have lived enough.
Seneca
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The fountain of
content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge
of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition,
will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes
to remove.
Samuel Johnson
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Never give up
on anybody.
Hubert H. Humphrey
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Each visit to
nature awakens our souls.
Tourism Saskatchewan
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History teaches
us that men and nations behave wisely
once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Abba Eban
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He who has a ‘why’
to live for can bear with almost any ‘how.’
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Content thyself
to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The
post of honour is a private station.
Joseph Addison
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Brains, like hearts,
go where they are appreciated.
Robert McNamara
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Don’t look back
in anger or ahead in fear, but around you with awareness.
James Thurber
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Talent develops
in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.
Johahn von Goethe
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The point - we
want to affirm the spirit. There is a longing in each of us
to invest our energy in things that matter.
Peter Block
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