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"Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes." - Oscar Wilde

"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it." - Winston Churchill

"Desperate times call for desperate measures"

"We are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction." - Douglas MacArthur

"Traditionally, most of Australia's imports come from overseas." - Former Australian cabinet minister Keppel Enderbery

"If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut." -Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

"If I want your opinion, I'll remove the duct tape."

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. - Lily Tomlin

You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play. - Warren Beatty

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin

"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." - Samuel Butler

"I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me." - Noel Coward

"Someone's boring me. I think it's me." - Dylan Thomas

"My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity." - George Bernard Shaw

What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do. - John Ruskin

In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat. - Robert Byrne

My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right? - Charles M. Schulz

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives. - William Dement

The trouble with jogging is that, by the time you realize you're not in shape for it, it's too far to walk back. - Franklin P. Jones

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow. - Woodrow Wilson

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them. - George Bernard Shaw

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor. - Neil Gaiman

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts. - Clare Booth Luce

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward. - Jean Paul Richter

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. - Jules Renard

It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous. - Robert Benchley

All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often. - Stanislaw J. Lec

"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it." - Henry David Thoreau

"A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them".

We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered. - Tom Stoppard

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. - Thomas Jefferson

"Only the educated are free." - Epictetus

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Sometimes the mind, for reasons we don't necessarily understand, just decides to go to the store for a quart of milk. - Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

"The significance of man is that he is insignificant and is aware of it." - Carl Becker

"To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level." - Bertrand Russell

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. - Elbert Hubbard

No. - Amy Carter

“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.” - Brian Littrell

I'm kind of jealous of the life I'm supposedly leading. - Zach Braff

Every increased possession loads us with new weariness. - John Ruskin

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it. - Malcolm Forbes

Against logic there is no armor like ignorance. - Laurence J. Peter
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The men the American public admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth. - HL Mencken

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight. - Phyllis Diller

The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him. - Henry Stimson

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. - Isaac Asimov

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches. - George Bernard Shaw

Once the game is over, the King and the pawn go back in the same box. - Italian Proverb

"Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught." - Sir Winston Churchill

"It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously." - Peter Ustinov

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." - George Santayana

First secure an independent income, then practice virtue. - Greek Proverb

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction. - EF Schumacher

When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest. - William Hazlitt

After twelve years of therapy my psychiatrist said something that brought tears to my eyes. He said, 'No hablo ingles.' - Ronnie Shakes

Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night. - Philip K. Dick

To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend. - Jacques Derrida

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault. - Henry Kissinger

Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control. - Don Marquis

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. - Oscar Wilde

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man. - J. Robert Oppenheimer

Things are more like they are now than they have ever been. - Gerald R. Ford

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. - Peter Drucker

A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat. - Katharine Whitehorn
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The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget. - Thomas Szasz

Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions. - Cullen Hightower

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection. - Henry Ward Beecher

No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other. - Jascha Heifetz

Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing. - Wernher von Braun

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Awareness gives you your life back. You can then decide what to do with it."

Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision. - Penn Jillette

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. - Mark Twain

The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing. - Henry S. Haskins

If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much. - Donald H. Rumsfeld

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment. - Josh Billings

Love thy neighbour as yourself, but choose your neighbourhood. - Louise Beal

The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it. - Warren Buffett

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience and rebellion that progress has been made. - Oscar Wilde

Music is essentially useless, as life is. - George Santayana

Anybody can win unless there happens to be a second entry. - George Ade

I don't own a cell phone or a pager. I just hang around everyone I know, all the time. If someone wants to get a hold of me, they just say 'Mitch,' and I say 'what?' and turn my head slightly. - Mitch Hedberg

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. - Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)

You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them! - Amy Tan (1952 - )

Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them. - Marilyn Ferguson

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls. - Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 - 1902), 1890

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do. - Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)

...the safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death. - Voltaire (1694 - 1778)

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. - Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)

Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness. - Lao-tzu (604 BC - 531 BC)

Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success. - Brian Adams

To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation. - Peter McWilliams, Life 101

He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king. - ohn Milton (1608 - 1674)

Feel the fear and do it anyway. - Susan Jeffers,

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us. - Marianne Williamson,

When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them. - Confucius

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer. - George S. Patton (1885 - 1945)

At their core, women fear that men will kill them. At their core, men fear that women will laugh at them. - Gavin de Becker, The Gift of Fear

Courage is the fear of being thought a coward. - Horace Smith

He that fears your presence will hate you absence. - Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. - Dale Carnegie





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When in doubt, tell the truth. - Mark Twain.

The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others. - Groucho Marx

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it. - Arnold Toynbee


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I studied the great until they're no more great. - Tupac

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. - George Bernard Shaw

In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these. - Paul Harvey

"There are two types of tragedies in life. One is not getting what you want, the other is getting it." - Yuri Orlov (Nicolas Cage), Lord of War

Seeing ourselves as others see us would probably confirm our worst suspicions about them. - Franklin P. Adams

If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you. - Don Marquis

No bird soars to high, if it soars with its own wings. - unknown

Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water. - WC Fields

You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do. - Olin Miller

I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution. - Wernher von Braun

A person who trusts no one can't be trusted. - Jerome Blattner

The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The prime purpose of eloquence is to keep other people from talking. - Louis Vermeil

i am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. - A.E.

"But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful. Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain, but because occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure. To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? But who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences, or one who avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure?" - 1914 translation by H. Rackham

"On the other hand, we denounce with righteous indignation and dislike men who are so beguiled and demoralized by the charms of pleasure of the moment, so blinded by desire, that they cannot foresee the pain and trouble that are bound to ensue; and equal blame belongs to those who fail in their duty through weakness of will, which is the same as saying through shrinking from toil and pain. These cases are perfectly simple and easy to distinguish. In a free hour, when our power of choice is untrammelled and when nothing prevents our being able to do what we like best, every pleasure is to be welcomed and every pain avoided. But in certain circumstances and owing to the claims of duty or the obligations of business it will frequently occur that pleasures have to be repudiated and annoyances accepted. The wise man therefore always holds in these matters to this principle of selection: he rejects pleasures to secure other greater pleasures, or else he endures pains to avoid worse pains." - 1914 translation by H. Rackham

Inteligence plus Character - this is the goal of true education. - Dr Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Amnesia used to be my favorite word, but then I forgot it."

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive. - Samuel Goldwyn

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. - Robert Frost

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money. - Arthur Miller

Lack of money is the root of all evil. - George Bernard Shaw

There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on. - Robert Byrne

When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bike. Then I realised that The Lord doesn't work that way, so I stole one and asked him to forgive me. - unknown

An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support. - John Buchan

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that! - Matt Frewer

"A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." - Franklin Delano Roosevelt

"Add life to your days, not days to your life." - someone
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When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. - PJ O'Rourke

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. - Robert Frost

I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception. - Groucho Marx

"My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world."- George Bernard Shaw

A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation. - Bertrand Russell

The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand. - Lewis Thomas

Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting. - John Russell

The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television. - Unknown

It is never to late to be what you might have been. - George Eliot

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years. - Nick Faldo

An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions. - Robert A. Humphrey

She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon. - Groucho Marx

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties. - Sir Francis Bacon

Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead. - Erma Bombeck
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"To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are."

“Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.”

“Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe, shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish.”

“They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.”

“Music is what feelings sound like.”

“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away”

“Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today.”

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