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Abraham Lincoln
Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
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William Somerset Maugham, The Bread-Winner
You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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Will Durant
Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.
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Albert Einstein
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
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A Bartlett Giamatti
Teachers believe they have a gift for giving it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.
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Alvin Toffler
Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.
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Walt Whitman
Answer That you are here---that life exists and identity, That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.
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Calvin Coolidge
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan press on has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
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Old Chinese Proverb
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
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Winston Churchill
The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
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Michel de Montaigne
Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.
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