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Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a
pathological criminal.
-Einstein
The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.
-Einstein
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-Einstein
We must build spiritual and scientific bridges linking the peoples
of the world.
-Einstein
If A equals success, then the formula is A=X+Y+Z, where X is
work, Y is play, and Z is keep your mouth shut.
-Einstein
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Benjamin Franklin
Our Constitution is in actual operation. Everything appears to
promise that it will last, but in this world nothing is certain but
death and taxes.
-Franklin
He who won't be counseled can't be helped.
-Franklin
Energy and pestilence alter all things.
-Franklin
We must all hang together, or we will surely all hang separately.
-Franklin
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Thomas Jefferson
A little rebellion now is a good thing.
-Jefferson
Ignorance is preferable to error.
-Jefferson
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Karl Klein
Do not rely on uninformed emotions to make decisions.
-Klein
Adversity tests our integrity, Prosperity tests self-discipline
(control).
-Klein
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Abraham Lincoln (1805-1865)
"If the good people, in their wisdom, shall see fit to keep me in the
background, I have been too familiar with disappointments to be
very much chagrined."
-Lincoln
"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This
expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the
extent of the difference, is no democracy."
-Lincoln
( From "The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln." )
"Die when I may, I want it said of me that I plucked a weed and
planted a flower wherever I thought a flower would grow."
-Lincoln
"It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent
him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and
appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the
words: "And this, too, shall pass away." How much it expresses!
How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths
of affliction!"
-Lincoln
( Address to the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society. )
"No one, not in my situation, can appreciate my feeling of sadness
at this parting. to this place, and the kindness of these people, I
owe everything. Here I have lived a quarter of a century, and have
passed from a young to an old man. Here my children have been
born, and one is buried. I now leave, not knowing when or if ever I
may return, with a task before me greater than that which rested
upon Washington. Without the assistance of that Divine Being who
ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot
fail. Trusting in Him who can go with me, and remain with you, and
be everywhere for good, let us confidently hope that all will yet be
well."
-Lincoln
( Farewell Address, Springfield, Illinois )
"I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the
end, when I come to lay down the reigns of power, I have lost
every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and
that friend shall be down inside me."
-Lincoln
( Reply to Missouri Committee of Seventy )
"With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the
right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the
work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him
who shall have bourne the battle and for his widow and his orphan,
to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace
among ourselves and with all nations."
-Lincoln
( Second Inaugural Address )
"I have always thought that all men should be free; but if any should
be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and
secondly those who desire it for others. Whenever I hear anyone
arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him
personally."
-Lincoln
( Address to an Indiana Regiment )
"Prohibition... goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts
to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of
things that are not crimes... A prohibition law strikes a blow at the
very principles upon which our government was founded."
( December 1840 )
-Lincoln
"Important principles may and must be inflexible."
-Lincoln
( Last public address, Washington, D.C. )
"You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn."
-Lincoln
"You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift."
-Lincoln
"You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong."
-Lincoln
"You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer."
-Lincoln
"You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich."
-Lincoln
"You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's
initiative and independence."
-Lincoln
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell. It is simply purgatory.
-Lincoln
"You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they
could and should do for themselves."
-Lincoln
"It is the duty of nations as well as of men to own their dependence
upon the overruling power of God."
-Lincoln
"My concern is not whether God is on our side; my great concern
is to be on God's side."
-Lincoln
"The best way to destroy your enemy is to make him your friend."
-Lincoln
He can compress the most words into the
smallest idea of any man I met.
-Lincoln
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Vince Lombardi (1913-1970)
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm,
you will be FIRED with enthusiasm.
-Lombardi
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
-Lombardi
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William Shakespeare
If all the year were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious
as to work.
-Shakespeare
The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
-Shakespeare
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Mark Twain (1853-1910)
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
-Twain
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell. It is simply purgatory.
-Twain
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the
rest.
-Twain
Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-Twain
I'm opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer
me the position.
-Twain
The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
-Twain
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Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
I am not young enough to know everything.
-Wilde
Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes.
-Wilde
Life is far too serious a thing to ever talk seriously about.
-Wilde
The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.
-Wilde
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
-Wilde
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Miscellaneous Authors
Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge, but he who hates
correction is stupid.
-Proverb
Of the thirty-six ways of avoiding disaster, running away is best.
-Proverb
The government of the United States is not in any sense founded
on the Christian religion.
-Washington
We must not look to the government to solve our problems.
Government is the problem.
-Reagan
Forgive your enemies,
but never forget their names.
-J.F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
Nobody can ever make you feel inferior without your consent.
-Roosevelt
Assassination: The extreme form of censorship.
-Shaw
He who has lost freedom has nothing else to lose. -Anonymous
If you think the United States has stood still, who built the
largest shopping center in the world?
-Nixon
Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.
-Livy
Men willingly believe what they will. -Caesar
There's none so blind as they won't see.
-Swift
A little caution outflanks a large cavalry.
-Bismarck
Always leave them laughing when you say goodbye.
-Cohan
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
-Tennyson
Wit is educated insolence.
-Aristotle (384-322 BC)
Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.
-Savile
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-Berlioz
No one respects a talent that is concealed. -Erasmus
What good is it to want to be the best if the
methods you use brings out the worst in you?
Things aren't always as they seem...
usually they are worse.
Truth is the only Justice there is.
Mind Over Matter
If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday
-Anonymous
By the inch, it's a cinch;
By the mile, it'll take a while;
-Rob Zee
There is no end to the great things we can accomplish
if we don't worry about who gets the credit.
EXPERIENCE IS THE OLDEST NECESSITY
-Reuben "DeWayne" Owens
Wise men make proverbs,
fools repeat them.
-Samuel Palmer, c. 1710
The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum.
-Menander (342-292 BC)
Logic is in the eye of the Logician.
-Georia Steinem
Respect cannot be learned, purchased, or acquired; it can only
be earned. -Bits & Pieces
If you want the rainbow, you have to put up with the rain.
-Dolly Parton
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. -Milton Berle
The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish
enough to believe the best is yet to come. -Peter Ustinov
The surest way to be late is to have plenty of time. -Leo
Kennedy
Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his
goal. -E. Joseph Cossman
Nothing lasts forever; not even your troubles. -Arnold Glasgow
The one who loves least controls the relationship. -Anonymous
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it,
but what they become by it. -Ruskin
Success is more attitude than aptitude. -Unknown
Everything that is done in the world is done by hope. -Luther
There's no getting around no motivation. -Keely
The way up and the way down are one and the same. -Eliot
Man errs as long as he strives.
-Goethe
There's a mighty big difference between good, sound reasons
and reasons that sound good. -Hillis
There is no such thing as a free lunch.
-Friedman
A little inaccuracy contains a world of explanation.
-Aryes
I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man
that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of
being judged not to have lived. -MacIver
To live will be the greatest adventure of all. -Banning
A lie which is half truth is the blackest of lies. -Tennyson
All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare. -Spinoza
If a thing is worth doing, it's worth doing badly. -Churchill
Never have partners. -Hughes
The way to be nothing is to do nothing. -Howe
Let us respect gray hairs, especially our own. -Senn
He who considers too much will perform little. -Schiller
Mathematics consists in proving the most obvious things in the
least obvious way. -Polya
Advice is least heeded when most needed.
-Anonymous
It's not good to have everything one wants.
-Pascal
A man who views the world the same at 50 as he did at 20 has
wasted 30 years of his life.
-Ali
Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished.
-Livy
Real wealth can only increase.
-Fuller
Just because everything is different doesn't mean that anything
has changed.
-Southern California Oracle
The fault lies not with our technologies but with our systems.
-Levian
You don't have to explain something you never said. -Coolidge
Is life worth living? That depends on the liver. -Anonymous
He who never fell never climbed. -Anonymous
Bad memory has its roots in bad attention. -Anonymous
Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole
world will be clean. -Goethe.
Every man dies; not every man lives. -Wallace
It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.
-Howard Ruff
The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work
superbly well. -Sir William Osler
The best way to judge a man's character is to see what he does
when he thinks no one's looking. -Unknown
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