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"Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience."

Ludwig van Beethoven

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What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.


Isadora Duncan

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“It happens to be a matter of record that I was first in print with the discovery that the tastelessness of the food offered in American clubs varies in direct proportion to the exclusiveness of the club.”


Calvin Trillin

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“I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.”


Groucho Marx

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I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.


George Carlin (RIP)

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'Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice.'

Henry Ford

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“His money is twice tainted: 'taint yours and 'taint mine”


Mark Twain

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'When faced with a mountain, I will not quit! I will keep striving until I climb over, find a pass through, tunnel underneath or simply stay and turn the mountain into a gold mine, with God's help.'

Robert Half

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“it doesn't matter who it is, and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other.”


Mother Teresa

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'The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity.'

Richard M. Nixon

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“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”


Thomas Edison

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'Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.'

Henry Van Dyke

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I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.


Marilyn Monroe

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'I would love to talk to Twain and find out what he would say. I think he would have a real fun twinkle in his eye, then deny it forever.'

Chris Packard

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“Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today.”


James Dean

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“Today's greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.”


Woodrow Wilson

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'Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.'

John Wayne

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“What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.”


Buddha

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“Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people”

Eleanor Roosevelt

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“Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.”


Oscar Wilde

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“He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart”



C.S. Lewis

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“Once a woman has given you her heart, you can never get rid of the rest of her.”


Sir John Vanbrugh

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“The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.”


Maria Montessori

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Nobody could have imagined the phenomenon that 'Star Trek' became. It's still almost impossible to imagine.


William Shatner

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“What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.”


Kerry Thornley

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Chaos is a friend of mine.


Bob Dylan

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'Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was accomplished.'

Ulysses S. Grant

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“There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.”


Mark Twain

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I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.


Henry David Thoreau

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“Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age”


Booth Tarkington

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Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.


Mark Twain

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“A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there. With enough effort, he may achieve it. Or he may find something that is even more rewarding. But in the end, no matter what the outcome, he will know he has been alive.”



Walt Disney

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“People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.”


Robin Williams

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Ah, the patter of little feet around the house. There's nothing like having a midget for a butler.

W. C. Fields

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“Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed -- but never the husband).”

James Thurber

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“A husband without faults is a dangerous observer”


George Savile

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The physical world, including our bodies, is a response of the observer. We create our bodies as we create the experience of our world.


Deepak Chopra

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“Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A word of optimism and hope. And you can do it when things are tough.”



Richard M. DeVos

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We have a problem. 'Congratulations.' But it's a tough problem. 'Then double congratulations.'

W. Clement Stone

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Congratulations are in order for Woody Allen - he and Soon Yi have a brand new baby daughter. It's all part of Woody's plan to grow his own wives.


David Letterman

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“I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.”


John Barrymore