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George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon
Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on hold fast hold out. Patience is genius.
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Jawaharlal Nehru
The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
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Sir Francis Bacon, O Magazine, April 2003
Read not to contradict and confute…nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.
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Maya Angelou
I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.
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Marabel Morgan, The Electric Woman
Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time.
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Rainer Maria Rilke
Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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Charles Kingsley
It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.
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Johannes Trithemius, 1488
Speak of things public to the public, but of things lofty and secret only to the loftiest and most private of your friends. Hay to the ox and sugar to the parrot.
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Mary Pickford
If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.
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Niccolo Machiavelli, quoted in O Magazine, November 2003
God creates men, but they choose each other.
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Denis de Rougemont
Social confusion has now reached a point at which the pursuit of immorality turns out to be more exhausting than compliance with the old moral codes.
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Adam Smith
The robot is going to lose. Not by much. But when the final score is tallied, flesh and blood is going to beat the damn monster.
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