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Men’s maxims reveal their characters. <ul><li>Marquis de Vauvenargues </li></ul>

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Common sense is not so common. <ul><li>Voltaire </li></ul>

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One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings. <ul><li>Diogenes </li></ul>

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I may have said the same thing before... but my explanation, I am sure, will always be different. <ul><li>Oscar Wilde </li></ul>

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Nature has given to men one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak. <ul><li>Epictetus, Greek philosopher </li></ul>

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How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. <ul><li>Annie Dillard </li></ul>

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The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance—it is the illusion of knowledge. <ul><li>Daniel J Boorstin </li></ul>

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Blessed is the man who, having nothing to stay, abstains from giving us worthy evidence of the fact. <ul><li>George Eliot </li></ul>

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If you look for the good in people expecting to find it, you surely will. <ul><li>Abraham Lincoln </li></ul>

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He who builds to every man’s advice will have a crooked house. <ul><li>Danish proverb </li></ul>

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The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself. <ul><li>Oscar Wilde </li></ul>

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Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. <ul><li>John F. Kennedy </li></ul>

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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. <ul><li>Herm Albright </li></ul>

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Never answer a letter when you’re angry. <ul><li>Chinese proverb </li></ul>

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There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. <ul><li>Machiavelli </li></ul><ul><li>The Prince </li></ul>

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People don’t ask for facts in making up their minds. They would rather have one good, soul-satisfying emotion than a dozen facts. <ul><li>Robert Keith Leavitt </li></ul>

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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome. <ul><li>Samuel Johnson </li></ul>

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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. <ul><li>Ralph Waldo Emerson </li></ul><ul><li>(1803 - 1882) </li></ul>

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To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe. <ul><li>Marilyn vos Savant </li></ul>

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It’s not what you don’t know that hurts you. It’s what you know that ain’t so. <ul><li>Will Rogers </li></ul>

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Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. <ul><li>Abraham Lincoln </li></ul>

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Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again. <ul><li>Johann W. von Goethe </li></ul>

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“We’ve been looking for the enemy for some time now. We’ve finally found him. We’re surrounded. That simplifies things.” <ul><li>Colonel Lewis B. “Chesty” Puller </li></ul>

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Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. <ul><li>Albert Einstein </li></ul>

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The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. <ul><li>George Orwell, 1984 </li></ul>

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There is nothing more frightening than ignorance in action. <ul><li>Johann W. von Goethe </li></ul>

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Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. <ul><li>Mark Twain </li></ul>

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Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. <ul><li>Albert Einstein </li></ul>

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I would rather be the man who bought the Brooklyn Bridge than the man who sold it. <ul><li>Will Rogers </li></ul>

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Success is dependent on effort. <ul><li>Sophocles </li></ul>

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