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Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you
nothing. It was here first.

Mark Twain

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Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

Samuel Johnson 1709-1784 Boswell, Life

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Weblog for Quotes - Talent vs Genius

It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius,
especially ambitious young men and women.

Louisa May Alcott

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Even God cannot change the past.

Agathon 447?-401 B.C.Quoted in Aristotle's Nicomachaean Ethics, 6

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Weblog for Quotes - Capital Punishment

Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human
life.

Orrin Hatch Senator from Utah May 16, 1988

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Weblog for Quotes - War

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.

George Orwell

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We have to go forth and crush every world view that doesn't believe in
tolerance and free speech.

David Brin

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Weblog for Quotes - Children

Show me the boy until he is 7 and I will show you the man.

Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them
afterwards.

(variously attributed to St. Francis Xavier, a Jesuit saying, Piaget...)

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Weblog for Quotes - God

I asked God for strength, that I might achieve; I was made weak, that I may
learn humbly to obey.

Lazlo's Chinese Relativity Axiom

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Weblog for Quotes - Specialization

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a
hog, con a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build
a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate,
act alone, solve equations, analyse a new problem, pitch manure, program a
computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.
Specialization is for insects.

R.A Heinlein - Notebook of Lazarus Long

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Weblog for Quotes - Leader?

Trying to force his way through the Paris mob:

"Let me pass! I have to follow them; I am their leader."

Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollinone of the instigators of the short-lived
Communist Revolution 15 May 1848

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Weblog for Quotes - Genius

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

Aristotle

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To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be
well-mannered.

Voltaire


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Weblog for Quotes - Laugh

Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to
be amused.

Author Unknown

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Weblog for Quotes - Advise

Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead
of using it.

Gordon R. Dickson

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Weblog for Quotes - Speech

A good speech is like a miniskirt - short enough to be interesting, long
enough to cover the essentials.

Author Unknown

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Weblog for Quotes - Happiness

...As Aristotle said, happiness is not a condition that is produced or
stands on its own; rather, it is a frame of mind that accompanies an
activity. But another frame of mind comes first. It is a steely
determination to do well.

George Will - Men at Work

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Weblog for Quotes - Tranquility

When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to
seek it elsewhere.

La Rochefoucauld

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It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for
what we do not do.

Moliere


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Weblog for Quotes - Religion

Religion must remain an outlet for people who say to themselves, "I am not the kind of person I want to be." It must never sink into an assemblage of the self-satisfied.

Frank HerbertDune

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Weblog for Quotes - Face

At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.

George Orwell From his notebooks, published in Collected Essays.

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Weblog for Quotes - Science

All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike-and yet it
is the most precious thing we have.

Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

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Weblog for Quotes - Doubts

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so
certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.

Bertrand Russell

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Weblog for Quotes - Seek

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise: seek what they sought.

Basho

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Weblog for Quotes - Time

Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.

John Archibald Wheeler 1911-American J. of Physics, 1978, 46, 323, 1978

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Weblog for Quotes - Success

"Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed."

Emily Dickinson

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Weblog for Quotes - Philosopher

Nothing so absurd can be said, that some philosopher has not said it.

Cicero

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No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword
shall and must be red and bloody.

Andrew Jackson (1767-1845)


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Weblog for Quotes - Love

There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when
they no longer love each other.

FRANCOIS, DUC DE LA ROUCHEFOUCALD

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Weblog for Quotes - Liberty

It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the
provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.

James Madison (1751-1836) U.S. President

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Weblog for Quotes - Democracy

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by
the corrupt few.

George Bernard Shaw

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Weblog for Quotes - Bureaucracy

The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of an expanding bureaucracy.

Author Unknown

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Weblog for Quotes - Democracy

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we
deserve.

George Bernard Shaw

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Weblog for Quotes - Money

Money as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Money in
some form or other will always be
needed.

M.K Gandhi

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Weblog for Quotes - Heaven and Hell

Heaven is where the police are British, the cooks are French, the mechanics
German, the lovers Italian and it's all organized by the Swiss.

Hell is where the chefs are British, the mechanics French, the lover's Swiss, the
police German and it's all organized by the Italians.

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Weblog for Quotes - Opportunity

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and
looks like work.

Thomas Edison

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Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Albert Einstein 1879-1955


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Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

Napoleon Bonaparte 1769-1821

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Weblog for Quotes - Politiacal

All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be
keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon
events in the political field.

Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

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Weblog for Quotes - Effect

What lasts in the reader's mind is not the phrase but the effect the phrase created: laughter, tears, pain, joy. If the phrase is not affecting the reader, what's it doing there? Make it do its job or cut it without mercy or remorse.

Isaac Asimov

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Weblog for Quotes - Honor

From long familiarity, we know what honor is.
It is what enables the individual to do right in
the face of complacency and cowardice. It is
what enables the soldier to die alone, the
political prisoner to resist, the singer to sing
her song, hardly appreciated, on a side street.

Mark Helprin
American Novelist and Writer


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Weblog for Quotes - Death

“Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.”

William Shakespeare

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Power

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's
character, give him power.

Abraham Lincoln

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Problems

Problems are not punishments, they are invitations to a higher level
of thinking.

Alan Cohen

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"Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around."

Henry David Thoreau

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“Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable."

Samuel Johnson

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"A human being is part of the whole, called by us "the universe." Our task must be
to widen our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole
of nature in its beauty."

Albert Einstein

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Do what can

"Do what can, with what you have,where you are."

Theodore Roosevelt

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"Never give cherries to pigs or advice to a fool."

Irish Proverb

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"May the stars carry your sadness away. May the flowers fill your heart with
beauty. May hope forever wipe away your tears. And,above all, may silence make you
strong."

Chief Dan George

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Lead

"Do not only point out the way, but lead the way."

Sioux


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Weblog for Quotes - Keep going

Just keep going. Everybody gets better if they keep at it.

Ted Williams

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"Change the world one act of kindness at a time. Remember, our kindness is our
power!"

Maribel - RAK Kindness Coordinator

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Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one
will say, "She doesn't have what it takes"; They will say, "Women don't have
what it takes"

Clare Boothe Luce (1903-1987) American playwright and diplomat

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Weblog for Quotes - Try

"I can't do it" never yet accomplished anything: "I will try"
has accomplished wonders.

George P. Burnham


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Weblog for Quotes - Chart

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.

Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841-1935)

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"When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need
completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live."

Greg Anderson

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Gipper

Let's win one for the Gipper.

Knute Rockne (1888-1931) American football coach

Giving

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Winston Churchill

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Kindness is free, so why not give some out?"

Lisandra Piercey

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Listen

“Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts,
the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to
me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be..”

Shel Silverstein

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Facts

Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.

Linus Pauling (1901-1994) American Chemist

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World War

"I can predict with absolute certainty that within another generation there will
be another world war if the nations of the world do not concert the method by
which to prevent it."

Woodrow Wilson 1919

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Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
- Herman Melville

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Quote of the Day - Leadership

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.- Colin Powell

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I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection.

* Thomas Paine (1737-1809) * British-American Writer *


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A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.

- Alistair Cooke

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"It is not your action that makes things happen, it is your intent."
-Anonymous

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Man has never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.

Bernard Williams (1929-)
English Philosopher

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We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds what we want.

Lao Tzu from the Tao Te Ching

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My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.
- Oprah Winfrey