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Japanese Proverb
Vision without action is a daydream. Action with without vision is a nightmare.
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Ronald Reagan
Where would this country be without this great land of ours?
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General Douglas MacArthur
In war there is no substitute for victory.
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James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, 1791
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
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Bob Wells
For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.
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Abigail Adams
Great necessities call out great virtues.
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Sir Walter Scott
O many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken
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Henry Watton
In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building has three conditions Commodity, Firmness and Delight.
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R. Buckminster Fuller
A self-balancing, 28-jointed adaptor-based biped; an electro-chemical reduction plant, integral with segregated stowages of special energy extracts in storage batteries, for subsequent actuation of thousands of hydraulic and pneumatic pumps, with motors attached; 62,000 miles of capillaries....
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Alexander Pope
Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
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Charles Dickens
Then Bob proposed 'A Merry Christmas to us all, my dears. God bless us' Which all his family re-echoed. 'God bless us every one' said Tiny Tim, the last of all.
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Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
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