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"A boy is a magical creature you can lock him out of your workshop, but you can't lock him out of your heart. You can get him out of your study, but you can't get him out of your mind. Might as well give up he is your captor, your jailer, your boss and your master a freckled-faced, pint-sized, cat-chasing bundle of noise. But when you come home at night with only the shattered pieces of your hopes and dreams, he can mend them like new with two magic words Hi, Dad!"	Alan Marshall Beck
"A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depends on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the measure as I have received and am still receiving."	Albert Einstein
"Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make yourself a happier and more productive person."	Dr. David M. Burns
"Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also - if you love them enough."	George Washington Carver
"Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future."	Benjamin "Dizzy" Disraeli
"Disclaimer: If anyone disagrees with anything I say, I am quite prepared to not only retract it, but also to deny under oath I ever said it."	T. Lehrer
"Do not use a cannon to kill a mosquito."	Confucius
"Even though I was their captive, the Indians allowed me quite a bit of freedom. I could walk about freely, make my own meals, and even hurl large rocks at their heads. It was only later that I discovered they were not Indians at all, but dirty clothes hampers."	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
"Failing doesn't make you a failure. Giving up, accepting your failure, refusing to try again does!"	Richard Exely
"Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes."	John Dewey
"From one Soul of the Universe are all Souls derived. . .Of these Souls there are many changes, some into a more fortunate estate, and some quite contrary. . .Not all human souls but only the pious ones are divine. Once separated from the body, and after the struggle to acquire piety, which consists in knowing God and injuring none, such a soul becomes all intelligence. The impious soul, however, punishes itself by seeking a human body to enter into, for no other body can receive a human soul; it cannot enter the body of an animal devoid of reason. Divine law preserves the human soul from such infamy. . .The soul passeth from form to form; and the mansions of her pilgrimage are manifold. Thou puttest off thy bodies as raiment; and as vesture dost thou fold them up. Thou art from old, O Soul of Man; yea, thou art from everlasting."	Hermes
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined."	Patrick Henry
"I can't stand cheap people. It makes me real mad when someone says something like 'Hey, when are you going to pay me that hundred dollars you owe me?' or 'Do you have that fifty dollars you borrowed?' Man, quit being so cheap!"	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
"I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first ... Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow."	Richard Milhouse Nixon
"I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable ... but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."	Agatha Christie
"I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up wrinkles the soul."	Douglas MacArthur
"I wish I would have a real tragic love affair and get so bummed out that I'd just quit my job and become a bum for a few years, because I was thinking about doing that anyway."	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
"If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious."	Kingman Brewster, Jr.
"If you achieve success, you will get applause, and if you get applause, you will hear it. My advice to you concerning applause is this; enjoy it but never quite believe it."	Robert Montgomery
"If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room."	Anita Koddick
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Albert Einstein	Alexander Graham Bell	Angela Monèt
Anita Koddick	Arthur C(harles) Clarke	Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin "Dizzy" Disraeli	Colin Greenwood	Confucius
Conrad Hilton	Daisaku Ikeda	Daniel J(oseph) Boorstin
Doris Lessing	Douglas MacArthur	Douglas Noel Adams
Dr. David M. Burns	Edwin Hubbel Chapin	Elizabeth II
Ella Fitzgerald	Ernest Hello	Frank Luntz
George Eliot	George Herbert Allen	George Washington Carver
Golda Meir	G Gaia	Henry Ward Beecher
Henry Louis Mencken	Herman Hesse	Hermes
Heroditus	Hubert H. Humphrey	I Ching
Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]	James P. Hogan	John Dewey
Joseph Conrad	Kingman Brewster, Jr.	Marcus Tullius Cicero
Michael Jordon	Michel Eyquem de Montaigne	Mike McLaren
Nadia Boulanger	Nigel Kneale	Patrick Henry
Paul Eldridge	Paul Gruchow	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Raymond Holliwel	Richard Exely	Richard Milhouse Nixon
Richard Needham	Robert Montgomery	Samuel Butler
Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill	Stephen William Hawking	Thomas Henry Huxley
T. Lehrer	T. S. Eliot	Vernon Howard
Vincent Thomas "Vince" Lombardi	Wanda Carter	William S. Gilbert
W(illiam) Somerset Maugham