Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors.............
Try to be better than yourself.
William Faulkner
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Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors.............
Try to be better than yourself.
William Faulkner
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History has to move in a certain direction, .....................................
even if it has to be pushed that way by neurotics
George Orwell, essay
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It is said that for money you can have everything, but you cannot. ................
You can buy food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; knowledge but not wisdom; glitter, but not beauty; fun, but not joy; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; leisure, but not peace. ..................
You can have the husk of everything for money, but not the kernel.
Arne Garborg
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"Don't knock the weather;................................................
nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while."
Kin Hubbard
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Happy New Year to all !!!!
"The most wasted day of all is that ...........................................
during which we have not laughed."
Sebastian R. N. Chamfort
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"Laws are like sausages, .............................................
it is better not to see them being made."
Otto von Bismarck
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"The fellow that agrees with everything you say ..........................................
is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you."
Kin Hubbard
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The temporary good ..............................................
is enemy to the permanent best.
Bill Wilson
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Many people claim coffee inspires them, ...........................
but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.
Honore de Balzac, Treatise on Modern Stimulants
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It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of supersophisticated communication, .........................................
we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.
-Erma Bombeck, "If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries...",
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Albert Camus:
Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves
We make our world significant by the courage of our questions ...............................
and by the depth of our answers.
Carl Sagan, Cosmos (page: 193), 1980
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"Only the spoon knows .......................................
what is stirring in the pot."
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One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
-- Rita Mae Brown
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
-- Jimi Hendrix
The miracle is this - the more we share, the more we have.
-- Leonard Nimoy
"It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious,..........................
especially those who envy you."
Baltasar Gracian, The Oracle
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I always advise people never to give advice.
For every man there comes that special moment when he is physically tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing - unique to him and fitted to his talents............................................
What a tragedy if that moment finds him unprepared or unqualified for the work which would be his finest hour.
Anon., [widely attributed to Winston Churchill]
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"Shoot for the moon. ...........................................
Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars."
Les Brown
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The pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with.
-- Marty Feldman
Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
-- Samuel Palmer
"Anyone can become angry—that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way—this is not easy."
- Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one that we preach, but do not practice, ..............................................
and another that we practice, but seldom preach.
Bertrand Russell
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Cherish youth, .........................................
but trust old age.
American Indian Proverb, Pueblo
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