“Beware all enterprises that require new clothes.” — Hemy David Thoreau
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“The bird of time has but a little way to flutter — and the bird is on the wing.” — Omar Khayyam
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“It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.” Margaret Thatcher
“If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.” — Benjamin Franklin
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“If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.” — Napoleon
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“Don’t do things to not die, do things to enjoy living. The byproduct may be not dying.” —
Bernie S. Siegel
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“Human beings are the only creatures on Earth that allow
children to come back home.”
— Bill Cosby
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“The bird, a nest; the spider, a web; man, friendship.” —
William Blake
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“The world belongs to the energetic.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“No man ever listened himself out of a job.” — Calvin Coolidge
“Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.”
— Herbert Hoover
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“A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.” — George Bernard Shaw
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“What does it mean to pre-board? Do you get on before you get on?” — George Catiin
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‘To be rich is not the end, but only a change, of worries.”—Epicurus
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Words Of Wisdom
“Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.” — Mark Twain
“Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Donuts. … Is there anything they can’t do?” — Homer Simpson
“I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.”—Harry S. Truman
“Life is a long lesson in humility.” — James M. Barrie
“A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Everywhere I go, I’m asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don’t stifle enough of them.” — Planner)’ O’Connor
“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.”
— Harper Lee
“My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I’m happy. I can’t figure it out. What am 1 doing right?” — Charles Schulz
“Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn’t mean the circus has left town.” — George Carlin
“There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.” — Edward Abbey
“To get back my youth 1 would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.” — Oscar Wilde