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Max L. Forman
Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level.
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Mignon McLaughlin
We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it or worse, they might.
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From Petronii Arbitri Satyricon AD 66 (Attributed to Gaius Petronus, a Roman General who later committed suicide)
We trained hard, but it seemed every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganised. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising, and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation.
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Harlan Ellison.
The two most abundant things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
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Confucius
Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.
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Charles Richter
According to Democritus, truth lies at the bottom of a well, the water of which serves as a mirror in which objects may be reflected. I have heard, however, that some philosophers, in seeking for truth, to pay homage to her, have seen their own image and adored it instead.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
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J.W.N. Sullivan
For every living creature that succeeds in getting a footing in life there are thousands or millions that perish. There is an enormous random scattering for every seed that comes to life. This does not remind us of intelligent human design. If a man in order to shoot a hare, were to discharge thousands of guns on a great moor in all possible directions; if in order to get into a locked room, he were to buy ten thousand casual keys, and try them all; if, in order to have a house, he were to build a town, and leave all the other houses to wind and weather - assuredly no one would call such proceedings purposeful and still less would anyone conjecture behind these proceedings a higher wisdom, unrevealed reasons, and superior prudence.
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Joyce
Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.
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Gaius Plinius Secundus, ("The Elder") (23-79)
This only is certain, that there is nothing certain; and nothing more miserable and yet more arrogant than man.
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Susan Jeffers
We have been taught to believe that negative equals realistic and positive equals unrealistic.
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Sun Bear
When humans participate in ceremony, they enter a sacred space. Everything outside of that space shrivels in importance. Time takes on a different dimension. Emotions flow more freely. The bodies of participants become filled with the energy of life, and this energy reaches out and blesses the creation around them. All is made new everything becomes sacred.
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