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'one of the best rules in Conversation is, never say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish we had rather left unsaid'
						-John Swift

'the grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants and for peace like retarded pygmies'
						-Lester B. Pearson
[Acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize, Oslo, 1957]

'today, when the fall of a cabinet, the death of a political leader, the capture of a spy, the echo of a prohecy of war goes around the world in a matter of hours, the issue of universality has become paramount'
						- Margaret Mead

'just as foreseeing is not knowing, so knowing is not feeling'
						-Simone DE Beauvoir

'of all the people you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never leave or lose. To the question of your life, you are the only answer. To the problems of your life, you are the only solution'
						-Fredelle Maynard

'I am troubled; I am dissatisfied; I am Irish'
						-Marianna Moore

'if in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead'
						-Gelett Burgess

'The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself he becomes wise'
						-Alden Nowlan

'man is but a supermonkey'
						-Isaac Asimov

'Anyone can become angry. That is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose and in the right way-that is not easy'
						-Aristole

'time wasted is existence, used is life'

'truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again'

'one need not detail each feather to describe a duck'

'no one has a good enough memory to make a successful liar'
						-Abraham Lincoln

'habit is habit, and not ot be flung out the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time'
						-Mark Twain

'maternal dislike is more crippling than clubs'
						-June Callwood

'...when you fish for the glory you catch the darkness too'
						-Sheila Watson

'friendship is selfishness half the time'
						-Thomas Haliburton

'we're not equal, and we don't want to be. We're different'
						-Kahn-Tineta Horn

'after years of observation, I've come to the conclusion that i'd rather have a friend with warm feelings than a friend with cold facts. Unfortunately, there are a lot of people walking around today with million-dollar brains & ten-cent hearts'
						-Gary Lautens

'dost thouse love life? then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of'
						-Benjamin Franklin

'in Canada we don't ban demonstrations; we re-route them'
						-Alan Borovoy

'courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things'
						-Amelia Earhart Putnam

'not only is a womans work never done, the definition keeps changing'
			-Bill Copeland

'charm is a way of getting the answer "yes" without asking a clear question'
			-Albert Camus

'our creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above & beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal'
			-Nathanial Hawthorne

'Here is good advice for a happy marriage: try to treat your mate in such a fashion that if you should die it would take more than an eletric blanket to replace you'
			-The Radiant Quest

'I am tired of hearing about self-made men. There is not a self-made man in the world. The so-called self-made man is the man who has seized his opportunites & those given him by circumstances & has made use of them'
			-Lucias Tuttle

'when you judge others you are revealing your own fears & prejudices'

'action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action'
			-Benamin Disraeli

'Fear of change caused some persons to be comfortable in their misery, secure in their mediocrity & paralyzed in their prejudice'
			-William Arthur Ward

'absence sharpens love; presence strengthens it'
			-Thomas Fuller

'Sooner or latter you've heard all your best friends have to say. Then comes the tolerance of real love'
			-Ned Rorem

'there are only two things to aim for in life: first, to get what you want, and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second'
			-Logan Pearsall Smith

'Oblivion is the dark page, where on Memory writes her lightbeam characters, ad makes them legible; were it all light, nothing could be read there, any more than if it were all darkness'
			-Thomas Carlyle

'you will do foolish things but do them with enthusiasm'
			-Colette

'happiness is not the absence of problems but the ability to deal with them'

'animals are such agreeable friends-they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms'
			-George Eliot

'contect makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor'
			-Benjamin Franklin

'We ought not to look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and the purpose of profiting by dear-bought experience'
			-George Washington

'change is the law of life. And those who look only at the past or the present are certain to miss the future'
			-John F. Kennedy

'nothing is permanent but change'
			-Heraclitus(500 B.C.)

'when choosing between two evils. I always like to try the one I've never tried before'
			-Mae West

'self-reliance is the greatest gift a parent can give a child'