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Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn
No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.
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Carl Hermann Voss
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
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Democritus
More men have become great through practice than by nature.
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Babylonian Talmud
Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.
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Henry II Ford
What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.
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Johnson
Knowledge always desires increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterward propagate it.
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Leonardo DaVinci
As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.
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Robert J. Shiller
The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence.
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Phocion, from Plutarch, Apothegms
Have I inadvertently said some evil thing?
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Hellen Keller
It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.
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Saint Thomas Aquinas
He who is dying of hunger must be fed rather than taught.
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Alexander Pope, "Ode to Solitude"
Thus let me live, unseen, unknown; thus unlamented let me die; steal from the world, and not a stone tell where I lie.
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