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Phyllis
We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.
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Benjamin Disraeli
Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.
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Hassan Fathy, An Architecture for People by James Steele, page 185.
Tradition is the social equivalent of personal habit.
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Sophocles, Antigone
Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.
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Arnold Glasgow
One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.
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John Lyly
Love is made in heaven and consummated on earth.
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William Shakespeare
It is the mind that makes the body rich; and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honor peereth in the meanest habit.
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Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
There are many stages to a man's life. In the first stage, he is young and eager, like a beaver. In the second stage, he wants to build things, like dams, and maybe chew down some trees. In the third stage, he feels trapped, and then 'skinned.'' I'm not sure what the fourth stage is.
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Benjamin Franklin
Anger is never without a reason but seldom a good one.
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Samuel Ullman
Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
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Bertrand Russell, "Am I An Atheist Or An Agnostic?", 1947
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Feel for others--in your pocket.
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