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Ralph Waldo Emerson. Photo: Wikipedia As we grow old...the beauty steals inward. - Ralph Waldo Emerson It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time. - Sir Winston Churchill The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end. - Harriet Beecher Stowe To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals. - Benjamin Franklin None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear. - Ferdinand Foch A goal without a plan is just a wish. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. - Joseph Campbell Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless. - Thomas A. Edison Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. - Abraham Lincoln My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. - Edith Sitwell

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John Kenneth Galbraith. Photo: Wikipedia Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory. - John Kenneth Galbraith Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character. - Ralph Waldo Emerson It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear. - Dick Cavett To err is human; to forgive, infrequent. - Franklin P. Adams It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny. - Jean Nidetch Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative. - H. G. Wells It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit. - Robert Louis Stevenson Creditors have better memories than debtors. - Benjamin Franklin, One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes. - Friedrich Nietzsche When I was younger, I cou...

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George Herbert. Photo: Wikipedia Storms make oaks take deeper root. - George Herbert Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment. - Rita Mae Brown The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing. - Walt Whitman A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world. - John le Carre All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. - Mark Twain If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings. - Samuel Johnson Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other. - Ann Landers Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger. - Arnold Palmer You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through. - Rosalynn Carter

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Benjamin Franklin. Photo: Wikipedia Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sun-dial in the shade?  - Benjamin Franklin  I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.  - Albert Einstein  Never promise more than you can perform.  - Publilius Syrus  The only cure for grief is action.  - George Henry Lewes  What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.  - Samuel Johnson  Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.  -Thomas Jones  Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.  - Maya Angelou  Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.  - Mark Twain  Always be a little kinder than necessary.  - James M. Barrie  Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.  - Isaac Asimov 

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Thomas Paine. Photo: Wikipedia Better fare hard with good men than feast it with bad.  - Thomas Paine  The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.  - Joan Baez  Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.  - Mark Twain  Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.  - Kin Hubbard  When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.  - Ernest Hemingway  In a mad world only the mad are sane.  - Akira Kurosawa  Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was.  - Margaret Mitchell   Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold. - Ludwig van Beethoven Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.  - Walter Winchell  For one person who dreams of making fifty tho...

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Elvis Presley. Photo: Google I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.  - Elvis Presley  I hate music, especially when it's played.  - Jimmy Durante  My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.  - Martin Luther If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.  - Pierre Beaumarchais  Hope is a waking dream.  - Aristotle My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.  - Mary Shelly  Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.  - Ralph Waldo Emerson  Change your thoughts and you change your world.  - Norman Vincent Peale  We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.  - H. G. Wells  You can't build a reputation on what you...