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  • There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result.
        Franklin D. Roosevelt   Best?
  • The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.
        Douglas Adams   Best?
  • I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird, and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.
        Franklin D. Roosevelt   Best?
  • But the only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
        Arthur C. Clarke   Best?
  • WEDDING, n. A ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.
        Mae West   Best?
  • Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.
        Queen Elizabeth   Best?
  • Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.
        Dwight D. Eisenhower   Best?
  • Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity
        Eric Hoffer   Best?
  • The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
        Benjamin Franklin   Best?
  • Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. In is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and a manly heart.
        Henry Wadsworth Longfellow   Best?
  • The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.
        Vince Lombardi   Best?
  • Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.
        Albert Einstein   Best?
  • Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
        Emerson   Best?
  • Doubt is not a pleasant condition but certainty is an absurd one.
        Voltaire   Best?
  • Ability is of little account without opportunity.
        Napoleon Bonaparte   Best?
  • To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.
        Anna Louise Strong   Best?
  • Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you.
        From the last episode of "Chee   Best?
  • Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things which get you. And all you can do is go where they can find you.
        Pooh's Little Instruction Book   Best?
  • When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.
        Pooh's Little Instruction Book   Best?
  • I have decided that suicide is completely out of the question. I refuse to end the suffering of others... No, I must contemplate homicide and end the suffering of one... ME!!!
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • There are people who make things happen,
        Unknown   Best?
  • Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.
        Henry Wadsworth Longfellow   Best?
  • Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of - for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
        Socrates   Best?
  • When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and true maxim that 'a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.' So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey that catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the great highroad to his reason, and which, once gained, you will find but little trouble in convincing him of the justice of your cause, if indeed that cause is really a good one.
        Abraham Lincoln   Best?
  • Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.
        Marcus Aurelius Antoninus   Best?
  • Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.
        Oliver Goldsmith   Best?
  • What people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can.
        Henry David Thoreau   Best?
  • Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.
        Antisthenes   Best?
  • Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
        Ralph Waldo Emerson   Best?
  • Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
        Thomas Merton   Best?
  • It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
        George Washington   Best?
  • Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary.
        Peter Minard   Best?
  • Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
        Ramsay Clark   Best?
  • I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
        John Cleese   Best?
  • Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
        Mark Twain   Best?
  • I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them.
        H. L. Mencken   Best?
  • The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.
        Flip Wilson   Best?
  • We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.
        Dan Quayle   Best?
  • The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
        Robert R. Coveyou   Best?

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