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Nicholas Murray Butler
Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.
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Thomas John Watson, Sr.
All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.
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Horace
I will not add another word.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
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Pericles, from Plutarch, Lives
Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.
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Abraham Lincoln
Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
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Elbert Hubbard
The woman who cannot tell a lie in defense of her husband is unworthy of the name of wife.
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Albert Schweitzer
Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.
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Walter Lippman
A useful definition of liberty is obtained only by seeking the principle of liberty in the main business of human life, that is to say, in the process by which men educate their responses and learn to control their environment.
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Cyril Northcote Parkinson
Work expands to fill the time available for its completion.
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Paul E. Pfuetze
Now the alternative to despair is courage. And human life can be viewed as a continuous struggle between these two options. Courage is the capacity to affirm one's life in spite of the elements which threaten it. The fact that courage usually predominates over despair in itself tells us something important about life. It tells you that the forces that affirm life are stronger than those that negate it.
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Nietzsche
One repays a teacher badly if one only remains a pupil.
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