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“But time growing old teaches all things.”
Aeschylus
“I saw few die of hunger of eating, a hundred thousand.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Never let your schooling interfere with your education.”
Mark Twain
“Truth is in things, and not in words.”
Herman Melville
“The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone.”
Laura Bush
“There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.”
Nelson Mandela
“Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.”
Will Cuppy
“For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.”
Benjamin Franklin
“We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.”
Lee Iacocca
“Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.”
Dale Carnegie
“You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You've got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It's all down to you, mate.”
John Lennon
“Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.”
Khalil Gibran
“Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.”
George W. Bush
“Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.”
André Gide
“Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.”
Winston Churchill
“In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.”
H. L. Mencken
“How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.”
Oscar Wilde
“A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.”
Arnold H. Glasow
“Management is nothing more than motivating other people.”
Lee Lacocca
“Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.”
H. L. Mencken
“The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.”
Gustave Flaubert
“The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.”
Thomas Jefferson