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  • Greg Anderson Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to.
    Greg Anderson
    American author (1947 - )
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  • George Jean Nathan An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.
    George Jean Nathan
    American criticus (1882 - 1958)
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  • David Henry Thoreau Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Walt Disney We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
    Walt Disney
    American producer (1901 - 1966)
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  • P. J. O'Rourke Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
    P. J. O'Rourke
    American journalist (1947 - )
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  • George Orwell Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Thomas Henry Huxley The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge.
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    English biologist (1825 - 1895)
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  • Ban Ki-moon Throughout human history, in any great endeavour requiring the common effort of many nations and men and women everywhere, we have learned - it is only through seriousness of purpose and persistence that we ultimately carry the day. We might liken it to riding a bicycle. You stay upright and move forward so long as you keep up the momentum.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Otto Von Bismarck A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.
    Otto Von Bismarck
    German statesman and prime minister (1815 - 1898)
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  • Leigh Hunt Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope.
    Leigh Hunt
    British poet, essaywriter (1784 - 1859)
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  • Ellen Glasgow All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.
    Ellen Glasgow
    American writer (1873 - 1945)
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  • Oscar Wilde Anyone looking for a beautiful woman, good and intelligent, do not try one but three.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Casey Stengel Going to bed with a woman never hurt a ball player. It's staying up all night looking for them that does you in.
    Casey Stengel
    American basketbal player and manager (1890 - 1975)
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  • Dorothy L. Sayers Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.
    Dorothy L. Sayers
    British writer (1893 - 1957)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of tricks and duplicity than straight forward and simple integrity in another.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Henry Ford Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • W. C. Fields W. C. Fields, a lifetime agnostic, was discovered reading a Bible on his deathbed. ''I'm looking for a loop-hole,'' he explained.
    W. C. Fields
    American Actor (1880 - 1946)
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  • Lillian Smith When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.
    Lillian Smith
    American writer (1897 - 1966)
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  • Bernard Law Montgomery With stout hearts, and with enthusiasm for the contest, let us go forward to victory.
    Said to his troops on the eve of D-Day
    Bernard Law Montgomery
    British general (1887 - 1976)
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