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Poverty is uncomfortable; but 9 times out of 10 the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and be compelled to sink or swim.
James Garfield
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Wisdom To End The Day .........................................
Back on Track........................in Naples Florida
Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.
Frank Popoff
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News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he's read it. After that it's dead.
Evelyn Waugh
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If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith.
Robert G. Ingersoll
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If a playwright tried to see eye to eye with everybody, he would get the worst case of strabismus since Hannibal lost an eye trying to count his nineteen elephants during a snowstorm while crossing the Alps.
James Thurber
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Give a beggar a dime and he'll bless you. Give him a dollar and he'll curse you for withholding the rest of your fortune. Poverty is a bag with a hole at the bottom.
Anzia Yezierska
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The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.
Socrates
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Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.
Andrew Young
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Talk well of your friends and of your enemies say nothing.
Proverb
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The best way to save money is not to lose it.
Les Williams
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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.
Cyril Connolly
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A universal feeling, whether well or ill founded, cannot be safely disregarded.
Abraham Lincoln
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The greatest productive force is human selfishness.
Robert A. Heinlein
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It's easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing -- that's the Lord's test.
Mahalia Jackson
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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.
Source Unknown
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I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
John Steinbeck
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Being contented ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.
G. K. Chesterton
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A wise man learns more from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
Baltasar Gracian
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So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.
George Orwell
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Uncle claims that if he files his income tax wrong he'll go to jail, and if he files it right he'll go to the poor house.
Nonnee Coan
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A word from the mouth is like a stone from a sling.
Proverb
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I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
Antonio Gramsci
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The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. |
Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan
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Tough times never last, but tough people do.
Robert H. Schuller
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Old elephants limp off to the hills to die; old Americans go out to the highway and drive themselves to death with huge cars.
Hunter S. Thompson
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