Monthly Archives: April 1999

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4557-Honore’ de Balzac- ‘No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.’

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2996-Benjamin Disraeli- ‘Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.’

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1433-Herodotus- ‘In peace, children inter their parents war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.’

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4527-Judy Garland- ‘I can live without money, but I cannot live without love.’

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2966-Benjamin Disraeli- ‘The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.’

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1403-Robert Benchley- ‘I can’t bring myself to say, ‘Well, I guess I’ll be toddling along.’ It isn’t that I can’t toddle. It’s just that I can’t guess I’ll toddle.’

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4496-Norman Vincent Peale- ‘Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture…Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.’

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2935-Norman Mailer- ‘People move forward into the future out of the way they comprehend the past. When we don’t understand something in our past, we are therefore crippled.’

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1372-Vince Lombardi- ‘Nobody is hurt. Hurt is in the mind. If you can walk, you can run.’

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4466-Edward R. Murrow- ‘A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.’

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2905-George Orwell- ‘Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child’s eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.’

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1342-John Milton- ‘If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectfy manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man.’

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4435-Mother Theresa- ‘Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.’

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2874-Kahlil Gibran- ‘The bird has an honor that man does not have. Man lives in the traps of his abdicated laws and traditions but the birds live according to the natural law of God who causes the earth to turn around the sun.’

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1311-Jeseph Joubert- ‘Never cut what you can untie.’

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4404-French Proverb- ‘Everything passes, everything wears out, everything breaks. (tout passe, tout lasse, tout casse)’

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2843-Kahlil Gibran- ‘Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself… You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.’

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1280-Confucius- ‘The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.’

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4374-Jack Benny- ‘I don’t deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don’t deserve that either.’

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2813-Kahlil Gibran- ‘If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.’

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1250-Confucius- ‘Wealth and rank are what people desire, but unless they be obtained in the right way they may not be possessed.’

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4343-Publilius Syrus- ‘Speech is a mirror of the soul as a man speaks, so is he.’

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2782-Kahlil Gibran- ‘All that spirits desire, spirits attain.’

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1219-Confucius- ‘Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men.’

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4313-Publilius Syrus- ‘If you refuse where you have always granted you invite to theft.’

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2752-H. Jackson Brown Jr.- ‘Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.’

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1189-Johann von Goethe- ‘Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be, and he will become as he can and should be.’

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4282-Percy Bysshe Shelley- ‘Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.’

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2721-Dante Alighieri- ‘A great flame follows a little spark.’

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1158-Johann von Goethe- ‘We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.’

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4254-Arnold Schwarzenegger- ‘The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it-as long as you really believe 100 percent.’

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2693-Henry Ward Beecher- ‘It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.’

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1130-Johann von Goethe- ‘The ground that a good man treads is hallowed.’

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4223-Walter Lippmann- ‘The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.’

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2662-German proverb- ‘Whose bread I eat his song I sing.’

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1099-Sophocles- ‘How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be When there’s no help in truth’

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