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I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day. ~Abraham Lincoln



Mankind have banned the Divinity from their presence; they have relegated him to a sanctuary; the walls of the temple restrict his view; he does not exist outside of it. ~Diderot, Pensees philosophiques, 1746



When sisters stand shoulder to shoulder, who stands a chance against us? ~Pam Brown



Never fight fire from ego. ~Author Unknown



He who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition. ~Charles Lamb



Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation. ~Conor Cruise O'Brien



Graduation is only a concept. In real life every day you graduate. Graduation is a process that goes on until the last day of your life. If you can grasp that, you'll make a difference. ~Arie Pencovici



People seem to get nostalgic about a lot of things they weren't so crazy about the first time around. ~Author Unknown



Friends and neighbors complain that taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might the more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly. ~Benjamin Franklin



Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. ~Robert Frost



First you forget names; then you forget faces; then you forget to zip up your fly; and then you forget to unzip your fly. ~Branch Rickey



I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer. ~Jim Carrey



But words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew, upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps, millions, think. ~Lord Byron, Don Juan, 1819



Availability is better than ability for God. ~Author Unknown



Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



You don't have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight. ~Barry Goldwater



It is a mistake to suppose that people succeed through success; they often succeed through failures. ~Author Unknown



Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing, but nobody else does. ~Steuart Henderson Britt



History is the sextant of states which, tossed by wind and current, would be lost in confusion if they could not fix their position. ~Allan Nevins, The Gateway to History



We all worry about the population explosion, but we don't worry about it at the right time. ~Arthur Hoppe