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Optimism is the foundation of courage.


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I divide the world into three Classes - The few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen, the overwhelming majority who have no notion of what happens.

I divide the world into three Classes - The few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen, the overwhelming majority who have no notion of what happens.



The limited liability corporation is the greatest single invention of modern times.

The limited liability corporation is the greatest single invention of modern times.



Those people who think only of themselves, are hopelessly uneducated. They are not educated, no matter how instructed they may be.

Those people who think only of themselves, are hopelessly uneducated. They are not educated, no matter how instructed they may be.



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Persecution on racial and religious grounds has absolutely no place in a nation given over to liberty.



The youth of today and the youth of tomorrow will be accorded an almost unequaled opportunity for great accomplishment and for human service.

The youth of today and the youth of tomorrow will be accorded an almost unequaled opportunity for great accomplishment and for human service.



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Modern mathematics, that most astounding of intellectual creations, has projected the mind's eye through infinite time and the mind's hand into boundless space.



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Cherish yesterday. dream tomorrow, live like crazy today!!



There are many things that go to make up an education, but there are just two things without which no man can ever hope to have an education and these two things are character and good manners.

There are many things that go to make up an education, but there are just two things without which no man can ever hope to have an education and these two things are character and good manners.



Time was invented by the Almighty God in order to give ideas a chance.

Time was invented by the Almighty God in order to give ideas a chance.



To exclude religious teaching altogether from education... is a very dangerous and curious tendency. The result is to give paganism a new importance and influence.

To exclude religious teaching altogether from education... is a very dangerous and curious tendency. The result is to give paganism a new importance and influence.





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We want to 'write in' our plan and 'write out' the consequence. When we do that, we're headed 'right back' to what we foolishly thought we could 'write out.



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Blessed be agriculture! If one does not have too much of it.



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I tried on 250 bathing suits in one afternoon and ended up havinglittle scabs up and down my thighs, probably from some of those withsequins all over them.



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Why do they put Braille on the drive-through bank machines?



Rights are a protection from society. But only by fulfilling their obligations to society can the individual give meaning to that protection. (V - From Ideology Towards Equilibrium)

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A house should not be built so close to another that a chicken from one can lay an egg in the neighbor's yard, nor so far away that a child cannot shout to the yard of his neighbor.



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Well, it may be humorous to you, but it’s a very serious matter to the squirrels.



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The future, like everything else, is no longer quite what it used to be.



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Once you lose someone it is never exactly the same person who comes back.




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