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Famous
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A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a
fool can learn from a wise answer. -- Bruce Lee
By Controlling the anger of a minute, you may avoid the remorse of a lifetime.
-- Chinese proverb
Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and
character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy. --
General H. Norman Schwartzkopf
The best way to predict the future is to create it. --
Peter Drucker
The trouble with unemployment is that the minute you wake
up in the morning you're on the job. -- Slappy White
You are neither right nor wrong because other agree with
you. You're right because your facts are right and your reasoning is right --
and that's the only thing that makes you right. -- Benjamin Graham
In order to live free and happily, you must sacrifice
boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice. -- Richard Bach (Excerpt from
Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
| Look to your health; and if you have
it, praise God and value it next to conscience; for health is the second
blessing that we mortals are capable of, a blessing money can't buy.
--Izaak Walton, English biographer & fishing author (1593 - 1683)
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One's real life is often the life that one does not lead.
-- Oscar WildeWhen people do not respect
us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in our hearts no man much respects
himself. --Mark Twain (Samuel Longhorne Clemens)
H eroes are heroic because
they, despite their weaknesses -- and sometimes because of them -- do great
things. -- Benjamin Hoff (Excerpt from
The Te of Piglet)
In time of prosperity our friends know us; in time of
adversity we know our friends. -- Churton J. Collins
If you can't convince them, confuse them. -- Harry S.
Truman
Temper is one thing you can't get rid of by losing it. -- Jack Nicholson
Every language is a living museum, a monument to every
culture it has been a vehicle to. It is a loss to everyone of us if a fraction
of that diversity disappears when there is something that can have been done to
prevent it. -- Nettle & Romaine
Never allow someone else to define you based on how they perceive you.
When you 're diagnosed with cancer, you start to bargain
with God: "Let me get through this, and I'll take better care of myself. I'll
get my priorities in order. I'll learn to live every day to the fullest." Isn't
it sad that you have to get sick before giving yourself permission to live life
to the fullest? -- Robert Schimmel
When bad people plot, good people must prepare. --
Martin Luther King jr.
"...To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts
is a great step to knowledge..." -- Benjamin Disraeli (1804-81) British
novelist and prime minister
By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was
right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong. -- Charles Wadsworth
When you go to work if your name is on the building,
you're rich. If your name is on your desk, you're middle-class. If your name is
on your shirt, you're poor. -- Rich Hall
We don't laugh anymore because we grow older? No, it's
the opposite We grow old because we don't laugh anymore!
"After finding no qualified candidates for the position
of principal, the school board is extremely pleased to announce the appointment
of David Steele to the post." -- Philip Streifer, Superintendent of Schools,
Barrington, Rhode Island
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