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Ruth Ross
All prosperity begins in the mind and is dependent only on the full use of our creative imagination.
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George Washington
I know patriotism exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided by a prospect of interest, or some reward.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Water, water, everywhere,And all the boards did shrink.Water, water everywhere,Nor any drop to drink.
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Clarence Thomas
Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.
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Lee Iacocca
The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.
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Cicero
There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment.
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Professor Edsger Dijkstra, at the ACN South Central Regional Conference, Austin, Texas, 16 to 18 Novemver 1984
The fathers of the field had been pretty confusing: John von Neumann speculated about computers and the human brain in analogies sufficiently wild to be worthy of a medieval thinker, and Alan Turing thought about criteria to settle the question of whether machines can think, a question of which we now know that it is about as relevant as the question of whether submarines can swim.
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Henry James
Experience is never limited, and it is never complete it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every airborne particle in its tissue.
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Randall Jarrell
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
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Jacques Martin Barzun
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
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Salvador Dali
The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
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Mary Webb
The past is only the present become invisible and mute and because it is invisible and mute, its memoried glances and it's murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past.
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