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Tout passe, tout lasse, tout casse et tout se remplace (Everything passes, everything weary, everything breaks and everything replaced).

French Proverb

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15 years ago

I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.

G. C. Lichtenberg

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15 years ago

It is not enough to be busy -- the question is what are we busy about.

Henry David Thoreau

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15 years ago

It’s better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.

Emiliano Zapata

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15 years ago

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

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15 years ago

He was my friend, faithful, and just to me, but Brutus says, he was ambitious, and Brutus is an honorable man. He hath brought many captives home to Rome, whose ransoms did the general coffers fill. Did this in Caesar seem ambitious. When the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept. Ambition should me made of sterner stuff, yet Brutus says, he was ambitious and Brutus is an honorable man.

William Shakespeare

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15 years ago

Ask not what your country can do for you -- ask what you can do for your country.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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15 years ago

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Vincent Van Gogh

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15 years ago

Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.

Satchel Paige

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15 years ago

Folly, thou conquerest, and I must yieldAgainst stupidity the very godsThemselves contend in vain. Exalted reason, Resplendent daughter of the head divine,Wise founders of the system of the world,Guide of the stars, who are thou then, if thou,Bound to the tail of folly's uncurb'd steed,Must, vainly shrieking, with the drunken crowd,Eyes open, plunge down headlong in the abyss.

Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller

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15 years ago

Shared joy is double joy. Shared sorrow is half sorrow.

Swedish Proverb

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15 years ago

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day -- wisdom consists of not exceeding the limit.

Elbert Hubbard

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15 years ago

Every puddle has crap in it...

English Proverb

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15 years ago

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

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15 years ago

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.

Robert Frost

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15 years ago

Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time -- what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.

Sydney Harris

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15 years ago

Isn't it strange that ... people build walls to keep an enemy out, and there's only one part of the world and one philosophy where they have to build walls to keep their people in.

Ronald Reagan

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15 years ago

We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.

Ben Sweetland

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15 years ago

Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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15 years ago

If at first you don't succeed, you're running about average.

M. H. Alderson

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15 years ago

Hence, a devout Christian must avoid astrologers and all impious soothsayers, especially when they tell the truth, for fear of leading his soul into error by consorting with demons and entangling himself with the bonds of such association.

Saint Augustine

added by modulus204
15 years ago

Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?

Jane Austen

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15 years ago

Wise men talk because they have something to say, fools talk because they have to say something.

Saul Bellow

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15 years ago

Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.

Stewart Brand

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15 years ago

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