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All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.

Benjamin Franklin
US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790)

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"I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts."

John Steinbeck

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"I'm nuts and I know it. But so long as I make 'em laugh, they ain't going to lock me up."

Red Skelton

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Winston Churchill

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"It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err."


Mahatma Gandhi

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"Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power."

Leonardo da Vinci

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"Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat."

John Lehman

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A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing."
Sir Arnold Bax, Farewell my Youth (1943)
British composer (1883 - 1953)

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"Dancing is a sweat job."
Fred Astaire

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"Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job."

Victor Hugo