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"Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience."	George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon
"On the Plains of Hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions, who, at the Dawn of Victory, sat down to wait, and waiting--died!"	George W. Cecil
"When clouds form in the skies we know that rain will follow but we must not wait for it. Nothing will be achieved by attempting to interfere with the future before the time is ripe. Patience is needed."	I Ching
"Tony Gwynn, the fat batter behind Finley, is waiting."	Jerry Coleman
"The greatest power is often simple patience."	E(li) Joseph Cossman
"I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst, a 'transformer' in any situation, any organization. Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an entire loaf. It requires vision, initiative, patience, respect, persistence, courage, and faith to be a transforming leader."	Stephen R. Covey
"It is hard to have patience with people who say 'There is no death' or 'Death doesn't matter.' There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter."	Leonardo da Vinci
"Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will be powerless to vex your mind."	Leonardo da Vinci
"Beware the fury of a patient man!"	John Dryden
"Infinite patience brings immediate results."	Wayne W(alter) Dyer
"Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Patience and time do more than strength or passion."	Jean de La Fontaine
"[On being an actor] .nothing more than a worker in a service occupation . It's like being a waiter or a gas station attendant, but I'm waiting on 6 million people in a week if I'm lucky."	Harrison Ford
"We have scarcely gotten home ... when our children's sneezes greet us, skinned knees bleed after waiting all day to do so. There is the bellyache and the burned-out basement bulb, the stalled car and the incontinent cat. The windows frost, the toilets sweat, the body of our spouse is one cold shoulder and the darkness of our bedroom is soon full of the fallen shadows of our failures."	William H(oward) Gass
"It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace."	André Gide
"The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it."	Arnold H. Glasgow
"What is a minority? The chosen heroes of this earth have been in a minority. There is not a social, political, or religious privilege that you enjoy today that was not bought for you by the blood and tears and patient suffering of the minority. It is the minority that have stood in the van of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world."	John B. Gough
"Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself."	Baltasar Gracian
"I scrambled to the top of the precipice where Nick was waiting. 'That was fun,' I said. 'You bet it was,' said Nick. 'Let's climb higher.' 'No,' I said. 'I think we should be heading back now.' 'We have time,' Nick insisted. I said we didn't, and Nick said we did. We argued back and forth like that for about 20 minutes, then finally decided to head back. I didn't say it was an interesting story."	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
"He was a cowboy, mister, and he loved the land. He loved it so much he made a woman out of dirt and married her. But when he kissed her, she disintegrated. Later, at the funeral, when the preacher said, 'Dust to dust,' some people laughed, and the cowboy shot them. At his hanging, he told the others, 'I'll be waiting for you in heaven---with a gun.'"	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
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André Gide	Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh	Arnold H. Glasgow
Baltasar Gracian	Benjamin Haydon	Bible
Clive Staples Lewis	Daisaku Ideda	Dr. Samuel Johnson
D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence	Edmund Burke	Elizabeth Montagu
E(li) Joseph Cossman	Franklin P. Adams	Franklin P. Jones
Franz Kafka	Garth Henrichs	George Jackson
George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon	George W. Cecil	Hal Borland
Harrison Ford	Helen Adams Keller	Herbert Hensley Henson
I Ching	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]	Jean de La Bruyère
Jean de La Fontaine	Jean Kerr	Jerry Coleman
Jesse Louis Jackson	Jim	John Andrew Holmes, Jr.
John B. Gough	John Dryden	John Quincy Adams
Joseph Addison	Leonardo da Vinci	Les(ter Louis) Brown
Marcus Aelius Aurelius	Martin Luther	Napolean Hill
Neill MacRae	Olga Brouman	Peter Marshall
Phyllis McGinley	Proverbs 25:15 Bible	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Saint Augustine	Sarah Brady	Sir Francis Bacon
Sir Isaac Newton	Stephen Levine	Stephen R. Covey
Thomas Henry Huxley	Thomas à Kempis	Victor Hugo
Wayne W(alter) Dyer	William Shakespeare	William Edgar Borah
William H(oward) Gass	Woody Allen