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Norman Cousins
What was significant about the laughter . . . was not just the fact that it provides internal exercise for a person . . .a form of jogging for the innards, but that it creates a mood in which the other positive emotions can be put to work, too.
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Frank Moore Colby
Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.
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Andrew Johnson
Our government sprang from and was made for the people -- not the people for the government. To them it owes an allegiance from them it must derive its courage, strength, and wisdom.
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Sir Winston Churchill, Radio speech, 1941
Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt... We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
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Samuel Butler
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.
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Anon.
A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
To live is to function. That is all there is in living.
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Ansel Adams
Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.
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Robert Frost
Dancing is a vertical expression of a horizontal desire.
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Albert Einstein
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
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Bern Williams
Sooner or later we all quote our mothers.
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