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  • It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
        J. K. Rowling   Best?
  • Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
        Plato   Best?
  • A wretched soul, bruised with adversity,
        William Shakespeare   Best?
  • A woman is like a tea bag- you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.
        Eleanor Roosevelt   Best?
  • A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
        Aesop   Best?
  • Advice is the only commodity on the market where the supply always exceeds the demand.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
        Old Chinese Proverb   Best?
  • A quarrel is like buttermilk, the more you stir it, the more sour it grows.
        Bolivian Proverb   Best?
  • Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow, and the triumphs that are aftermath of war.
        Herbert Hoover   Best?
  • A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
        Antoine de Saint-Exupery   Best?
  • Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.
        George Bernard Shaw   Best?
  • I have no mercy or compassion for a society that crushes people, and then penalizes them for not being able to stand up under the weight.
        Malcolm X   Best?
  • In politics, absurdity is not a handicap.
        Napoleon Bonaparte   Best?
  • A cynic is just a man who found out when he was about ten that there wasn't any Santa Claus, and he's still upset.
        James Gould Cozzens   Best?
  • The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore.
        Henry Louis Mencken   Best?
  • Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty remember that God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil.
        Epictetus   Best?
  • You know you're getting old when it takes to much effort to procrastinate.
        Unknown   Best?
  • Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.
        Oliver Wendell Holmes   Best?
  • In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.
        John Churton Collins   Best?
  • You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
        Indira Gandhi   Best?
  • There are laws for everything except the harm families do.
        Sue Grafton   Best?
  • Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.
        Ruth Gordon   Best?
  • An atheist is one who hopes the Lord will do nothing to disturb his disbelief.
        Franklin P. Jones   Best?
  • Castles made of sand fall in the sea eventually.
        Jimi Hendrix   Best?
  • There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger.
        Saul Bellow   Best?
  • Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty.
        John F. Kennedy   Best?
  • The more you suffer, the more you show you really care.
        The Offspring   Best?
  • A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.
        Chuck Palahniuk   Best?
  • Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.
        Edgar Watson Howe   Best?
  • Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue.
        Sir Francis Bacon   Best?
  • We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
        Marie de Rabutin-Chantal   Best?
  • A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, "I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, angry, violent one. The other wolf is the loving, compassionate one. The grandson asked him, Which wolf will win the fight in your heart? The grandfather answered, The one I feed.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • Anxiety is interest paid on trouble before it is due.
        William Ralph Inge   Best?
  • Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
        Albert Einstein   Best?
  • There is no greater sorrow
        Dante Alighieri   Best?
  • Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it.
        Homer   Best?
  • It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country.
        Homer   Best?
  • Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
        Jacob A. Riis   Best?
  • Mathematics has given economics rigor, but alas, also mortis.
        Robert Heilbroner   Best?
  • Psychiatry is the care of the id by the odd.
        Unknown   Best?

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