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"A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water." -Eleanor Roosevelt

It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them. - Tiberius

"No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path." -Buddha

People change and forget to tell each other. - Lillian Hellman

"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude." -Maya Angelou

I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches. - Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you ca do for your country. JFK

Stupidity is a talent for misconception. - Edgar Allan Poe

"There is no great genius without some touch of madness." -Aristotle

If it was up to me, there wouldn't be no such thing as the establishment. - Jimi Hendrix

"Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." -Jim Morrison

My secrets must be poetic to be believable. - Mick Jagger

"What is a soul? It's like electricity - we don't really know what it is, but it's a force that can light a room." - Ray Charles

He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride. - John Lennon

"Music is a safe kind of high." -Jimi Hendrix

I'm not a flowerchild or anything like that... whatever it was. - Robert Plant

"The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls." -Pablo Picasso

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame. - Arthur Schopenhauer

"You might not make it to the top, but if you are doing what you love, there is much more happiness there than being rich or famous." -Tony Hawk

The truthful man is usually a liar. - Alfred Nobel

"Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them." -David Bowie

One day of lion is better than the hundred days of jackal. - Tipu Sultan

"I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other." -Napoleon Bonaparte

“Don't bite off more than you can chew because nobody looks attractive spitting it back out.”
― Carroll Bryant

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. - Plato

"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future." -JFK

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist. - Epicurus

"Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem." -Joseph Stalin

Stupidity—The top of the list for Satanic Sins. The Cardinal Sin of Satanism. It’s too bad that stupidity isn’t painful. Ignorance is one thing, but our society thrives increasingly on stupidity. It depends on people going along with whatever they are told. The media promotes a cultivated stupidity as a posture that is not only acceptable but laudable. Satanists must learn to see through the tricks and cannot afford to be stupid. - Anton LaVey

"Common sense is not so common." -Voltaire

Let's put it this way: there wouldn't be much point in me attending a high-school reunion now because there wouldn't be anybody there. We'd struggle to raise a quorum. - Clint Eastwood

"Adults are obsolete children." -Dr. Seuss

You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot. - Stanley Kubrick

"I will come out with my interpretation. If I'm wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of history, part of the give and take." -Oliver Stone

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen. - Frank Lloyd Wright

"I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past." -Thomas Jefferson

The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad. - Salvador Dali

"The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny." -Napoleon Bonaparte

Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong. - Adolf Hitler

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." -FDR

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit” ~Aristotle~

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator. - Francis Bacon, "On Innovation," Essays, 1597

"The only source of knowledge is experience." -Albert Einstein

I was always the black sheep of the family and always told that I was dumb, and I had a low IQ and did badly in school. - Francis Ford Coppola

"I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged." -Stephen King

count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. - Aristotle

"The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams." -Oprah Winfrey

We are all leaders-whether we want to be or not. There is always someone we are influencing-either leading them to good-or away from good. - Leif Erikson

"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." -John Quincy Adams

A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning. - Billie Jean King

"When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others." -Dalai Lama

Corruption has reached an unacceptable level. It devours resources that could be devoted to the citizens. It impedes the proper carrying out of market rules and penalizes the honest and capable. - Sergio Mattarella

Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.
Buddah

Maybe I need to look at another face... even one as ugly as yours. - quote from the film "Enemy Mine"

"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope." -Martin Luther King, Jr.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer. - Zora Neale Hurston

''For those who love time is eternal.'' --William Shakespeare.

Most people talk a lot, few are up for the moment. Welcome to Anarchy Ninety-nine. - quote from the film xXx

"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it." -Edith Wharton

What we've got here is failure to communicate. - quote from the film "Cool Hand Luke"

"I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them." -Isaac Asimov

I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really. - James Earl Jones

Trust me..He's not worth it.

* My bottle of wine

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People who boast about their I.Q. are losers. - Stephen Hawking

"We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology."
-Carl Sagan

Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest man to do. - Jean de la Bruyere

"Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate." -Thomas Aquinas

Every animal is related to its own constitution and the consciousness of it. - Chrysippus

"You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."
-Mark Twain

If you aim at nothing, you'll hit it every time. - Zig Ziglar

"Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for." -Zig Ziglar

There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why. - William Barclay

"Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real." -Tupac Shakur

Beware the barrenness of a busy life. - Socrates

"For an artist, a good place to be is you have some kind of influence and power to get things done, but in your essence you remain a nomad or a soldier facing a difficulty to be overcome." -Cai Guo-Qiang

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Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. - Plato

"Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change." -Stephen Hawking

Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends. - Plutarch

"Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light." -Helen Keller

Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use. - Charles M. Schulz

"Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive."
-Elbert Hubbard

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people. - Mahatma Gandhi

"If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever." -Thomas Aquinas

No one would argue that it's in the United States' interest to have independent knowledge of the plans and intentions of foreign countries. But we need to think about where to draw the line on these kind of operations so we're not always attacking our allies, the people we trust, the people we need to rely on, and to have them in turn rely on us. - Edward Snowden

"At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve." -Daniel Day-Lewis

"I know that I am intelligent because I know that I know nothing"
~Socrates~

“ Sine doctrina vita est quasi mortis imago" [Without learning, life is but the image of death] ”- Dionysius Cato

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest." -Benjamin Franklin

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity. - Epicurus

“Fearless is not about being reckless; fearless is about being instinctive.”

― Ray Attiyah

"Quality is not an act: it is a habit"
~Aristotle~

Man is condemned to be free – Jean-Paul Sartre

"When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others." -Dalai Lama

If a lion could talk, we could not understand him. - Ludwig Wittgenstein

"Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts." -Elizabeth I

When hypocrisy is a character trait, it also affects one's thinking, because it consists in the negation of all the aspects of reality that one finds disagreeable, irrational or repugnant. - Octavio Paz

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." -Albert Einstein

People confuse ego, lust, insecurity with true love. - Simon Cowell

"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend." -Martin Luther King, Jr.

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