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- You can’t do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth. -Evan Esar
- The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive. -John Sladek
- There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe there are two kinds of people in the world and those who don’t. -Robert Benchley
- You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough. -Frank Crane
- Truth is the only safe ground to stand on. -Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices. -Benjamin Franklin
- Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings. -Samuel Johnson
- Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. -Robert Louis Stevenson
- The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. -Thomas Carlyle
- Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish. -Ovid
- Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let’s love turbulence and use it for change. -Ramsay Clark
- The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. -Alvin Toffler
- Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. -Jonathon Kozol
- Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything. -George Lois
- Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t. -Eleanor Roosevelt
- There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity. -General Douglas McArthur (1880-1964)
- Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature … Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. -Helen Keller (1880-1968)
- Only a totalitarian society would even claim absolute safety as a worthy ideal, because it would require total state control over its citizens’ lives. -Ron Paul (1935- )
- Wisdom outweighs any wealth. -Sophocles
- To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe. -Marilyn vos Savant
- A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have -Gerald Ford
- Associate with well-mannered persons and your manners will improve. Run around with decent folk and your own decent instincts will be strengthened. -Stanley Walker
- Give no decision till both sides thou’st heard. -Phocylides
- One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life. -Alexander A. Bogomoletz
- Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance. -William Wirt
- Courage is being scared to death – but saddling up anyway. -John Wayne