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  • Thomas Jefferson A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Robert Frost A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • David Brinkley A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.
    David Brinkley
    American newsreader (1920 - 2003)
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  • David Brink A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.
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  • Anna Garlin Spencer A successful woman preacher was once asked what special obstacles have you met as a woman in the ministry? Not one, she answered, except the lack of a minister's wife.
    Anna Garlin Spencer
    American educator and feminist (1851 - 1931)
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  • Baltasar Gracian A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one.
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Henrik Ibsen A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
    Henrik Ibsen
    Norwegian dramatist (1828 - 1906)
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  • Carl Sagan A tiny blue dot set in a sunbeam. Here it is. That's where we live. That's home. We humans are one species and this is our world. It is our responsibility to cherish it. Of all the worlds in our solar system, the only one so far as we know, graced by life.
    Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990) 58 min 56 sec
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Carlos Fuentes A tradition without intelligence is not worth having. T. S. Eliot, After Strange Gods (1934) There is no creation without tradition. No one creates from nothing.
    Carlos Fuentes
    Mexican novelist and essayist (1928 - 2012)
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  • Doug Larson A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.
    Doug Larson
    American columnist and editor (1926 - 2017)
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  • Napoleon A true man hates no one.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Alexander Hamilton A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.
    Alexander Hamilton
    American statesman (1757 - 1804)
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  • Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle A well cultivated mind is made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only the one single mind educated by all previous time.
    Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
    French author (1657 - 1757)
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  • Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle A well-cultivated mind is, so to speak, made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only one single mind which has been educated during all this time.
    Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
    French author (1657 - 1757)
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  • Thomas Carlyle A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Helen Rowland A widow is a fascinating being with the flavor of maturity, the spice of experience, the piquancy of novelty, the tang of practiced coquetry, and the halo of one man's approval.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Maya Angelou A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim.
    Maya Angelou
    African-American poet and writer (1928 - 2014)
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  • Marcel Proust A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Carol Shields A woman's life isn't worth a plateful of cabbage if she hasn't felt life stir under her heart. Taking a little one to nurse, watching him grow to manhood, that's what love is.
    Carol Shields
    American-born Canadian novelist (1935 - 2003)
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  • Gaston Bachelard A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.
    Gaston Bachelard
    French scientist and philosopher (1884 - 1962)
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