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***About life***
*Act in the valley so that you need not fear those who stand on the hill.*
*- Danish proverb*
*The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.*
*- Groucho Marx (1890-1977)*
*Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open.*
*- Sir James Dewar, Scientist (1877-1925)*
*Don't go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing; it was here first.*
*- Mark Twain [Samuel Langhornne Clemens] (1835-1910)*
*Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.*
*- Mark Twain [Samuel Langhornne Clemens] (1835-1910)*
*Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.*
*- Samuel Butler (1612-1680)*
*If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.*
*- W. Edwards Deming*
*It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and THEN do your best.*
*- W. Edwards Deming*
*All my life I've wanted to be someone; I guess I should have been more specific.*
*- Jane Wagner/Lily Tomlin (1939- )*
*Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.*
*- Mark Twain [Samuel Langhornne Clemens] (1835-1910)*
*We think in generalities, but we live in details.*
*- Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)*
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.
*- Mark Twain [Samuel Langhornne Clemens] (1835-1910)*

***About Peace***
If there is light in the soul, there will be beauty in the person If there is beauty in the person, there will be harmony in the house If there is harmony in the house, there will be order in the nation If there is order in the nation, there will be Peace in the World. - Chinese Proverb

***About happiness***
*There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.*
*- Christopher Darlington Morley (1890-1957)*

***About being oneself***
*If all pulled in one direction, the world would keel over.*
*- Yiddish proverb*

*No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies.*
*- Daisy Bates (1863-1951)*
*Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.*
*- James R. Cook*
*If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.*
*- Anatole France [Jacques Anatole Thibault] (1844-1924)*
*When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.*
*- Eric Hoffer (1902-1983)*
*When all think alike, no one is thinking very much.*
*- Walter Lippmann (1889-1974)*
*Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.*
*- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)*
*We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.*
*- Mark Twain [Samuel Langhornne Clemens] (1835-1910)*
*Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.*
*- Mark Twain [Samuel Langhornne Clemens] (1835-1910)*
*It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.*
*- Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694-1778)*

***About the necessity of compromise***
*Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.*
*- Christopher Darlington Morley (1890-1957)* \
*In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.*
*- Kathleen Norris*

***About standing up for one's opinion***
*One who sits between two chairs may easily fall down.*
*- Proverb from Romania and Russia*

***About humbleness***
*My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I'm right.*
*- Ashleigh Brilliant*
*The fellow who thinks he knows it all is especially annoying to those of us who do.*
*- Harold Coffin*
*Too bad all the people who know how to run this country are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair.*
*- George Burns (1896-1996)*
*The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him.*
*- Stanislaw Jerszy Lec (1909- )*
*Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.*
*- Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694-1778)*
*To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.*
*- Olin Miller*
*It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.*
*- Mark Twain [Samuel Langhornne Clemens] (1835-1910)*

***About tolerance***
*Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.*
*- Chinese proverb*
*I will not condemn you for what you did yesterday, if you do it right today.*
*- Sheldon S. Maye*

***About hypocrisy***
*We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.*
*- Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991)*
*As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.*
*- Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919)*
*A memorandum isn't written to inform the receiver, but to protect the writer.*
*- Dean Acheson*
*Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others.*
*- Groucho Marx (1890-1977)*
People who have what they want are very fond of telling people who haven't what they want
*A classic is a book which people praise and don't read.*
*- Mark Twain [Samuel Langhornne Clemens] (1835-1910)*
*It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.*
*- Mark Twain [Samuel Langhornne Clemens] (1835-1910)*
*A jury consists of twelve people who determine which client has the better lawyer.*
*- Robert Frost*

***About clearness***
*The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.*
*- Chinese proverb*
*Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.*
*- Niels Bohr (1885-1962)*
*Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.*
*- Charles Mingus*

***About tact***
*The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch somebody else doing it wrong, without comment.*
*- T. H. White*

***About chatterboxes***
*Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.*
*- George Eliot [Mary Ann Evans] (1819-1880)*
*What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.*
*- Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1775)*
*Of those who say nothing, few are silent.*
*- Thomas Neill*
*Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.*
*- Plato (429-347 BC)*
*The secret of being tiresome is to tell everything.*
*- Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694-1778)*

***About learning from history***
*Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.*
*- George Santayana (1863-1952)*
*I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened of old ones.*
*- John Cage (1912-1992)*
*History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.*
*- Napoleon Bonaparte*
*What luck for the rulers that men do not think.*
*- Adolf Hitler (1889-1945)*
All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.
*- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)*

***About exaggerated realism***
*Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.*
*- Jules de Gaultier*

***About change***
*Every really new idea looks crazy at first.*
*- Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)*
*The important thing is never to stop questioning.*
*- Albert Einstein*
*If you want to make enemies, try to change something.*
*- Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924)*

***About leadership***
*No person can be a great leader unless he takes genuine joy in the successes of those under him.*
*- W. A. Nance*
*Only the suppressed word is dangerous.*
*- Ludwig Börne*

***Miscellaneous***
*The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.*
*- Samuel Butler (1612-1680)*
*You must believe in free will; there is no choice.*
*- Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991)*
*This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.*
*- Winston Churchill (1874-1965)*
*I haven't failed, I've found 10,000 ways that don't work.*
*- Thomas Edison (1847-1931)*
*Useless laws weaken necessary laws.*
*- Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1775)*
*The nice thing about standards is, there are so many to choose from.*
*Work expands to fill the time available for its completion.*
*- C. Northcote Parkinson*
*Half the work that is done in this world is to make things appear what they are not.*
*- Elias Root Beadle*
*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*
*Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining?*
*- George Wallace*
*A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.*
*- Oscar Wilde*
Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
*- H. Jackson Brown*
*It's kind of fun to do the impossible.*
*- Walt Disney*
Some folks go through life pleased that the glass is half full. Others spend a lifetime lamenting that it's half-empty. The truth is: There is a glass with a certain volume of liquid in it. From there, it's up to you!
*- Dr. James S. Vuocolo*

*Rather suffer wrong than do it.*
*- Thomas Fuller*

*Living a life of integrity is one of the greatest missions we can undertake.*
*- Greg Anderson*

*The path of least resistance is what makes rivers run crooked.*
*- Elbert Hubbard*

*An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.*
*- Elbert Hubbard*

*What others say of me matters little; what I myself say and do matters much.*
*- Elbert Hubbard*

The hundred point man is one who is true to every trust; who keeps his word; who is loyal to the firm that employs him; who does not listen for insults nor look for slights; who carries a civil tongue in his head; who is polite to strangers without being fresh; who is considerate toward servants; who is moderate in his eating and drinking; who is willing to learn; who is cautious and yet courageous.
*- Elbert Hubbard*

*Some men succeed by what they know; some by what they do; and a few by what they are.*
*- Elbert Hubbard*

*As you put into practice the qualities of patience, punctuality, sincerity, and solicitude, you will have a better opinion of the world around you.*
*- Grenville Kleiser*

*If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.*
*- Samuel Butler in The Way of All Flesh*

*To be simple is to be great.*
*- Ralph Waldo Emerson*

*What you are comes to you.*
*- Ralph Waldo Emerson*

*Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.*
*Ralph Waldo Emerson*

With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do...Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradicts everything you said today.
*- Ralph Waldo Emerson*

*God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please--you can never have both.*
*- Ralph Waldo Emerson*

*Let this be your wall of brass, to have nothing on your conscience, no guilt to make you turn pale.*
*- Horace*

*Nothing astonishes men so much as common-sense and plain dealing.*
*- Ralph Waldo Emerson*

Go put your creed into your deed, ``Nor speak with double tongue.
*- Ralph Waldo Emerson*

*The highest compact we can make with our fellow is,--"Let there be truth between us two forever more."*
*- Ralph Waldo Emerson*

*Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.*
*- Ralph Waldo Emerson*

*We might say "I can't" when what we mean is "I won't."*
*- Eric Allenbaugh*