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Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
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Unknown
If a pessimist is always right, is he a realist?
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Kahlil Gibran
We were a silent, hidden thought in the folds of oblivion, and we have become a voice that causes the heavens to tremble.
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Jack London
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sooner of later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song.
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Dr. Dale E. Turner
It is important to live each day with a positive perspective. It is not wise to pretend problems do not exist, but it is wise to look beyond the problem to the possibilities that are in it. When Goliath came against the Israelites, the soldiers all thought, 'He's so big, we can never kill him.' But David looked at the same giant and thought, 'He's so big, I can't miss him.'
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Harry S. Truman
We believe that all men are created equal because they are created in the image of God.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
We stand today on the edge of a new frontier-the frontier of the 1960s-a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils-a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats.
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Miss Piggy
Never eat more than you can lift.
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Kahlil Gibran
I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.
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Ben Johnson, Timber; or, Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter
Talking and eloquence are not the same thing: to speak, and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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Learned Hand
I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and upon courts. These are false hopes believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it...
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