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Example is the best precept.

Aesop

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We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.
Ronald Reagan

PS I don't know wether this quote has been given before - I've read a lot of this thread, but not all...

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"We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them."

Abigail Adams

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Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive. And don't ever apologize for anything.
Harry S Truman

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He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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"O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.

Robert Browning

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"People who've had very unhappy childhoods are pretty good at inventing themselves. If nobody invents you for yourself, nothing is left but to invent yourself for others."

John Le Carre

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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"I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure."

Anne Baxter

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Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

Jules Renard

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"Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there; they cause change. They motivate and inspire others to go in the right direction and they, along with everyone else, sacrifice to get there."

John Kotter

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"There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full."

Henry Kissinger

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"All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming."

Helen Keller

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Great quote above! ^

"Having a dream is what keeps you alive. Overcoming the challenges make life worth living."

Mary Tyler Moore

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Thanks, luv. Yours is a good one too! :)

"Why should we stop living because some people try to kill what is left of energy in ourselves?"

Jeanne Moreau

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I liked that a lot and had to add it to my signature temporarily :silly:

On to the game:
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

Albert Einstein

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I liked that one too, Fan! :biggrin:

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye."

Miss Piggy

Haha I kinda wanna add this one to my signature.

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"For the eye to have been formed by natural selection, seems absurd in the highest degree."

Charles Darwin

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Wait, if Darwin said that isn't he basically denouncing his theory?

"No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating."

Harold Rosenberg

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"The Weakest Link is fascinating program. They ask a bunch of people questions and they keep getting rid of the dumbest person, so just the smartest person is left. It is kind of the opposite way we elect a president."

Jay Leno

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We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
Buck Henry

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"It's no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'As pretty as an airport' appear"

Douglas Adams

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:rotfl: ^

Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.

Lewis Carroll

I :love2: his books!

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"It is necessary to get a lot of men together, for the show of the thing, otherwise the world will not believe. That is the meaning of committees. But the real work must always be done by one or two men."

Anthony Trollope

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If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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"The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil."

Thomas A. Edison

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Any time I got in emotional turmoil, I felt sick all the time, like at any minute I would die.

Skeet Ulrich

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"We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives."

Toni Morrison

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Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

Henry David Thoreau

Must be true when it would be so much quicker to buy some fish in the store...

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:rotfl: ^

"You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club."

Jack London

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I thought I had an appetite for destruction, but all I wanted was a club sandwich.

Matt Groening

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"If they had a social gospel in the days of the prodigal son, somebody would have given him a bed and a sandwich and he never would have gone home."

Vance Havner

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In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic.

Lyndon B. Johnson (Hmm. I've noted some repeats when searching)

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Yeah, I can tell you that although some may not be doing a search at all, the search funcion does not always work.

“Richard J. Daley was the unapologetic avatar of The City That Works.”

Michael Tackett

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"The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers."


Scott Adams

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All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

Voltaire

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I can play every instrument there is, every horn, I've played all the saxes and trumpets and everything and keyboards.

Dick Dale

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Well, isn't he a talented fella! :lol:

"I got burnt out on playing keyboards. And Devin was a big influence on me wanting to go back to guitar."

Mary Timony

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Another talented fella:

By the time I was 12 or 13, I felt that I was special, because I could play the guitar and write songs.

Paul Simon

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Then I guess I'm special too. :winky:

"How do I tell people who I am? Not being a writer, the only way is to sing songs that reflect my opinions."

Cass Elliot