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  • Continuous effort is the key to unlocking our potential.
        Black Elk, Native American   Best?
  • Whenever you find a man who says he doesn't believe in a real Right and Wrong, you will find the same man going back on this a moment later.
        C. S. Lewis   Best?
  • If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.
        Fay Weldon   Best?
  • What is life but a seires of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn't come every day.
        George Bernard Shaw   Best?
  • I guess what I'm trying to say is, I don't think you can measure life in terms of years. I think longevity doesn't necessarily have anything to do with happiness. I mean happiness comes from facing challenges and going out on a limb and taking risks. If you're not willing to take a risk for something you really care about, you might as well be dead.
        Northern Exposure   Best?
  • You think Nature is some Disney movie? Nature is a killer. Nature is a bitch. It's feeding time out there 24 hours a day, every step that you take is a gamble with death. If it isn't getting hit with lightning today, it's an earthquake tomorrow or some deer tick carrying Lime disease. Either way, you're ending up on the wrong end of the food chain.
        Jeff Melvoin   Best?
  • I don't measure America by its achievement but by its potential.
        Shirley Chisholm   Best?
  • All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible. This I did.
        T. E. Lawrence   Best?
  • Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.
        Oprah Winfrey   Best?
  • A child is not likely to find a father in God unless he finds something of God in his father.
        Austin L. Sorensen   Best?
  • I believe in the possibility of miracles but more to the point, I believe in our need for them.
        Dean Koontz   Best?
  • Four things come not back -- the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity.
        Arabian Proverb   Best?
  • If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering to disarm all hostility.
        Henry Wadsworth Longfellow   Best?
  • Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.
        Robert Anthony   Best?
  • I cannot forgive my friends for dying; I do not find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.
        Logan Pearsall Smith   Best?
  • Luck is only important insofar as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you've got to have talent and know how to use it.
        Frank Sinatra   Best?
  • There is a measure in everything. There are fixed limits beyond which and short of which right cannot find a resting place.
        Horace   Best?
  • We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet: and, amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us.
        Maurice Maeterlinck   Best?
  • Creativity is...seeing something that doesn't exist already. You need to find out how you can bring it into being and that way be a playmate with God.
        Michele Shea   Best?
  • Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think that's how dogs spend their lives.
        Sue Murphy   Best?
  • Homesickness is. . . absolutely nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time. . . You don't really long for another country. You long for something in yourself that you don't have, or haven't been able to find.
        John Cheever   Best?
  • ... if you find a person that you've never seen before getting in a crop duster that doesn't belong to you -- report it.
        George W. Bush   Best?
  • How can a question be answered that asks a lifetime of questions?
        Norman Maclean   Best?
  • Luck is a tag given by the mediocre to account for the accomplishments of genius.
        Robert A. Heinlein   Best?
  • Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.
        Robert A. Heinlein   Best?
  • Lord Ronald said nothing; he flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.
        Thomas Jefferson   Best?
  • Do not turn back when you are just at the goal.
        Publilius Syrus   Best?
  • It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.
        Horace   Best?
  • Fortune favors the brave.
        Virgil   Best?
  • Fortune helps the brave.
        Terence, Roman Dramatist   Best?
  • No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
        Plato   Best?
  • Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find - nothing.
        Aesop   Best?
  • I should rather labor as another's serf, in the home of a man without fortune, one whose livelihood was meager, than rule over all the departed dead.
        Homer   Best?
  • Beat me, hate me, you can never break me.
        Michael Jackson   Best?
  • Marriage: putting one's hand into a bag of snakes on the chance of drawing out an eel.
        Leonardo da Vinci   Best?
  • Bride, n. A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
        Frederich Nietzsche   Best?
  • Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion.
        From The Last Goon Show of All   Best?
  • An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.
        Will Rogers   Best?
  • To govern is to correct. If you set an example by being correct, who would dare remain incorrect?
        Confucious   Best?

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