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Re: Quotes to think about...
"When you win, you hear from everybody. When you lose, you hear from your friends." --President Richard Nixon
"Great ambition and conquest without contribution is without significance." --actor Kevin Kline ("Professor William Hundert") in the film The Emperor's Club
"Some Day Never Comes." --title of a song by Credence Clearwater Revival (CCR)
"Who'll Stop the Rain?" --title of a song by Credence Clearwater Revival (CCR)
"Know thyself." --Socrates
"The truth lies in the middle of two extremes." --Aristotle
"The needs of the many, outweigh the needs of the few, or the one." --actor Leonard Nimoy ("Spock") in the film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
"Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them." --philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer
"Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder." --Plato
"Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth- look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment." --philosopher Soren Kierkegaard
"It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love." --Voltaire
"One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose." --Voltaire
"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." --Voltaire
"The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself." --President Franklin Roosevelt
"Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself." --President Richard Nixon
"Man looks in the abyss. There's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that's what keeps him out of the abyss." --actor Hal Holbrook ("Lou Manheim") in the film Wall Street
"Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy." --Robert Half, entrepreneur
"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet." --Aristotle
"Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm." --Winston Churchill
"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." --President John Quincy Adams
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