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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
He who would teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live.
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Bruce Cockburn
Everybody loves to see justice done on somebody else.
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Roland Stahler
It is only by striving for beauty and love In all our relationships, That we can hope to become Guardians of our individual and collective futures.
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Plato, The Republic
Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
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Andrew Schneider
Greetings on this most exceedingly beautiful spring morning. A morning swollen with new life, a morning on which, if I had the voice, I would let loose with song. It's hard to believe just a few short weeks ago we were eating our cornflakes in the wintery dark. Now, well it's still kind of dim out there, but I can see the golden glow of Apollo's chariot waiting in the wings, about to make its entrance. Winter's on the lam, no doubt.
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Laurence J. Peter
A rut is a grave with the ends knocked out.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.
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Dave Barry, "Sweating Out Taxes"
All the big corporations depreciate their possessions, and you can, too, provided you use them for business purposes. For example, if you subscribe to the Wall Street Journal, a business-related newspaper, you can deduct the cost of your house, because, in the words of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger in a landmark 1979 tax decision: Where else are you going to read the paper? Outside? What if it rains?
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Confucius
While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits of the dead...While you do not know life, how can you know about death
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Herb Brody
Telling the future by looking at the past assumes that conditions remain constant. This is like driving a car by looking in the rearview mirror.
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Roosevelt, Eleanor
Anger is only one letter short of danger.
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Joey Adams
Many a crown of wisdom is but the golden chamberpot of success, worn with pompous dignity.
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