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John McDonald
Your mind, which is yourself, can be likened to a house. The first necessary move then, is to rid that house of all but furnishings essential to success.
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Robert Frost
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
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Michael Masukawa
Ignorance, apathy, and lethargy cause the most problems in our world. People don't know what's going on, they don't care, and they're too lazy to find out.
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Stanley Walker
Associate with well-mannered persons and your manners will improve. Run around with decent folk and your own decent instincts will be strengthened.
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Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
I remember how the other kids used to say that old Mister Swenson was the meanest man in town. But I said I thought he was nice, that he just didn't know how to show it. The meanest man in town, I said, was the mean old guy who lived in the big white house. 'THAT'S MISTER SWENSON,' they said. Oh, my mistake.
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Euell Gibbons
We live in a vastly complex society which has been able to provide us with a multitude of material things, and this is good, but people are beginning to suspect we have paid a high spiritual price for our plenty.
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Eugene F. Ware
All glory comes from daring to begin.
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Paul Klee, Creative Credo, 1920
Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible.
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George Orwell
Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
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Napoleon Bonaparte, 1802
What a beautiful fix we are in now; peace has been declared.
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Samuel Johnson
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.
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J. Todd
Few ever live to old age, and fewer still ever became distinguished, who were not in the habit of early rising.
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