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No one travelling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive.

Thorstein Veblen 1857 - 1929

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In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Warren Buffett 1930 -

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Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Aldus Manutius 1449 - 1515, Placard on the door of the Aldine Press

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The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.

Ambrose Bierce 1842 - 1914, The Devil's Dictionary

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If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.

Alfred North Whitehead 1861 - 1947


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It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it?

Eleanor H. Porter 1868 - 1920, Pollyanna, 1912


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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.

Henry James 1843 - 1916


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Cats regard people as warmblooded furniture.

Jacquelyn Mitchard, The Deep End of the Ocean


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Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.

Jeff Valdez


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I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

Sir Winston Churchill 1874 - 1965


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"I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?"

Death thought about it.

"Cats," he said eventually. "Cats are nice."

Terry Pratchett, Sourcery


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Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.

Unknown


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A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services.

Daniel J. Boorstin 1914 -

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A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.

Fred Allen 1894 - 1956

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A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.

H. L. Mencken 1880 - 1956

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The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault.

Henry Kissinger 1923 -

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Living in L.A., everyone likes to mold you and change you. I don't care about fame, I don't care about being a celebrity. I know that's part of the job, but I don't feed into anyone's idea of who I should be.

Jessica Alba

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I had an epiphany a few years ago where I was out at a celebrity party and it suddenly dawned on me that I had yet to meet a celebrity who is as smart and interesting as any of my friends.

Moby, quoted on CNN.com, March 2005

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When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by quiet neutrality.

Samuel Johnson 1709 - 1784

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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 - 1945, Pan American Day address, April 15, 1939

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It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.

Jean Nidetch

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Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance,
And toss them on the wheels of Chance.

Juvenal 55 AD - 127 AD


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In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind.

Louis Pasteur 1822 - 1895, lecture 1854


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Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance.

Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 - 1882


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The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.

Thucydides 471 BC - 400 BC


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Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

William Jennings Bryan 1860 - 1925

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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol 1928 - 1987, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett 1936 -

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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford 1942 - , quoted by Garry Jenkins in 'Harrison Ford: Imperfect Hero'

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau 1817 - 1862, Walden 1970

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Nothing endures but change.

Heraclitus 540 BC - 480 BC, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon, M.D.

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall, Where Have All the Tigers Gone?, 1989

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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus 121 AD - 180 AD, Meditations

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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck, O Magazine, Growing Wings, January 2004

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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis, Over the Hedge, 05-09-04

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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela 1918 - , 'A Long Walk to Freedom'

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Change your thoughts and you change your world.

Norman Vincent Peale 1898 - 1993

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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, January 03, 2004

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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln 1809 - 1865, Lincoln's Own Stories

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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Abraham Lincoln 1809 - 1865

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Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

Cicero 106 BC - 43 BC

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Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius 551 BC - 479 BC, The Confucian Analects

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Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

Elbert Hubbard 1856 - 1915

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People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 - 1962, My Day

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Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

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Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

Elmer G. Letterman

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In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson 1859 - 1907

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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 1742 - 1799

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Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

George Santayana 1863 - 1952, "The German Mind: A Philosophical Diagnosis"

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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Helen Keller 1880 - 1968

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus 540 BC - 480 BC,

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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Hesse 1877 - 1962

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The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.

Isabelle Eberhardt

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You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude 1818 - 1894

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When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.

Japanese Proverb

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Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion 1934 - , "Slouching Towards Bethlehem"

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Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 - 1832

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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Lois McMaster Bujold, Ethan of Athos, 1986

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle 1783 - 1842

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To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Marie Leneru, Oprah Magazine, May 2004

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander 342 BC - 292 BC

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I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons

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The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. 1841 - 1935

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant 1906 - 1972

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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 - 1882

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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 - 1882

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I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.

Richard Greenberg, NY Times Magazine, 03-26-2006

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You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.

Ronald Reagan 1911 - 2004

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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Seneca 5 BC - 65 AD, Epistles

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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Solon 638 BC - 559 BC

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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

W. Somerset Maugham 1874 - 1965, The Moon and Sixpence

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Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.

William Carleton

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Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.

Albert Camus 1913 - 1960

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One of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.

Andrew Carnegie 1835 - 1919

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The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.

Francis Maitland Balfour

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The living need charity more than the dead.

George Arnold, The Jolly Old Pedagogue 1866

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Charity sees the need not the cause.

German Proverb

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A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

Jack London 1876 - 1916

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In charity there is no excess.

Sir Francis Bacon 1561 - 1626, Of Goodness, and Goodness of Nature 1625

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In charity there is no excess.

Be charitable before wealth makes thee covetous.


Sir Thomas Browne 1605 - 1682


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In charity there is no excess.

Charity begins at home.

Terence 185 BC - 159 BC, Andria


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The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.

William Hutton


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Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.

Albert Camus 1913 - 1960


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You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.

Albert Camus 1913 - 1960, La Ch'te The Fall, 1956


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All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.

Cyril Connolly 1903 - 1974, Enemies of Promise 1938


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Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.

Henri-Frédéric Amiel


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We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.

Judith Martin, Miss Manners


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It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

Oscar Wilde 1854 - 1900, Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892,

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There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard


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I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen 1953 -


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Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery 1900 - 1944, "The Little Prince", 1943

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Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.

Bill Cosby 1937 -

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson 1958 - , Calvin and Hobbes

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If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

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The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.

Clarence Darrow 1857 - 1938

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Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn, The New Yorker, 05-01-2006

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If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

Dick Cavett 1936 -

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The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer 1906 - 1945

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The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.

Dorothy Parker 1893 - 1967

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Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Fran Lebowitz 1950 -

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I must take issue with the term 'a mere child,' for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz 1950 -

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal 1925 -

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A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx 1890 - 1977

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My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx 1890 - 1977

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I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

Harry S Truman 1884 - 1972

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It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray, "Children Are From Heaven"

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You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.

John J. Plomp

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal 55 AD - 127 AD


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The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII 1894 - 1972


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Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell, The Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter, 1998


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Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999


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People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one.

Leo J. Burke


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Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991


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Our children change us... whether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991


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Some men just aren't cut out for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son.

Lois McMaster Bujold, Ethan of Athos, 1986


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You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999


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Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken


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If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas


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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde 1854 - 1900, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891


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Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.

P. J. O'Rourke 1947 -

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Ask Not What The Country Can Do For You ; But Ask What You Can Do For Your Country.

J F Kennedy

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Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov 1921 - 2004

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Tomorrow Never Comes ; Tell Your Loved Ones You Care For Them.

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Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 - 1882

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Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

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I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Robert Orben

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies, "What's Bred in the Bone"

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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson 1911 - 1980

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Anyone who uses the phrase 'easy as taking candy from a baby' has never tried taking candy from a baby.

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D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham 1874 - 1965, 'Of Human Bondage', 1915

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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is
To have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare 1564 - 1616, "King Lear", Act

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It is a wise father that knows his own child.

William Shakespeare 1564 - 1616, "The Merchant of Venice", Act 2 scene 2

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Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.

Amos Bronson Alcott 1799 - 1888, Table Talk 1877

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Underlying the whole scheme of civilization is the confidence men have in each other, confidence in their integrity, confidence in their honesty, confidence in their future.

Bourke Cockran

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The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.

Havelock Ellis 1859 - 1939, The Dance of Life

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Lovely Lady's Look Is Lovely ; Lovely Lady's Sweet Words Are Even Lovelier ...

A Line From A Film Song -- Kannada

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It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.

Henry Allen

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Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.

Jane Addams 1860 - 1935, Speech, Honolulu 1933

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Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else.

Julian Jaynes, "The Origin of Consciousness"

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Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles...respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law...or, in a word justice.

Max Nordau 1849 - 1923

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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

Oscar Wilde 1854 - 1900

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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 - 1882

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The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.

Robert Ingersoll 1833 - 1899

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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.

Will Durant 1885 - 1981

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You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.

Will Rogers 1879 - 1935, New York Times, Dec. 23, 1929

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One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.

William Feather 1908 - 1976

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The computing field is always in need of new cliches.

Alan Perlis

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Let's have some new cliches.

Samuel Goldwyn 1882 - 1974

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Any great truth can -- and eventually will -- be expressed as a cliche -- a cliche is a sure and certain way to dilute an idea. For instance, my grandmother used to say, 'The black cat is always the last one off the fence.' I have no idea what she meant, but at one time, it was undoubtedly true.

Solomon Short

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If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee -- that will do them in.

Bradley's Bromide

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A committee can make a decision that is dumber than any of its members.

David Coblitz

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Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.

Edward Shepherd Mead

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Committee--a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.

Fred Allen 1894 - 1956

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There is no monument dedicated to the memory of a committee.

Lester J. Pourciau

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To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.

Robert Copeland

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A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.

Sir Barnett Cocks 1907 - 1989

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Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Albert Einstein 1879 - 1955

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Stupid is forever, ignorance can be fixed.

Don Wood

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The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.

Douglas Adams 1952 - 2001, "Mostly Harmless

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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

Gertrude Stein 1874 - 1946

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Common sense is the best sense I know of.

Lord Chesterfield 1694 - 1773

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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

Matthew Arnold 1822 - 1888, 'God and the Bible,' 1875

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Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

Oscar Wilde 1854 - 1900, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

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Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 - 1882, 'Art,' 1841

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If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice.

Tom Stoppard 1937 -

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Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 'Gift From the Sea'

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Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.

Frank Moore Colby

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Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

Judith Martin, Miss Manners

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I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up.

Tom Lehrer 1928 -

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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

William Butler Yeats 1865 - 1939

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Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.

Frank Zappa 1940 - 1993

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Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.

John Kenneth Galbraith 1908 - 2006

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Communism is like one big phone company.

Lenny Bruce 1923 - 1966

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Communism is like prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work.

Will Rogers 1879 - 1935, Weekly Articles 1981, first published 1927

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The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class.

Aristotle 384 BC - 322 BC, Politics

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Isn't everyone a part of everyone else?

Budd Schulberg, O Magazine, November 2003

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First it is necessary to stand on your own two feet. But the minute a man finds himself in that position, the next thing he should do is reach out his arms.

Kristin Hunter, O Magazine, November 2003

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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

Margaret Mead 1901 - 1978

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The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession.

Mark Twain 1835 - 1910

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But the life that no longer trust another human being and no longer forms ties to the political community is not a human life any longer.

Martha Nussbaum, O Magazine, November 2003

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God creates men, but they choose each other.

Niccolo Machiavelli 1469 - 1527, quoted in O Magazine, November 2003

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Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.

Larry McMurtry (1936 - , 'Lonesome Dove'

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Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

Laurence J. Peter 1919 - 1988, The Peter Principle

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Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.

Laurence J. Peter 1919 - 1988

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Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.

Laurence J. Peter 1919 - 1988, "The Peter Principle"

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An Apple A Day Keeps The Doctor Away.

What Does The Doctor Do To Eat Then?

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The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it.

Laurence J. Peter 1919 - 1988

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The computing field is always in need of new cliches.

Alan Perlis

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Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.

Andy Rooney 1919 -

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The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.

Bill Gates 1955 - , Business @ The Speed of Thought

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Money Talks ; But I Never Heard It Talk. Must Be Getting On With Years, And Losing Sense Of Hearing .

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If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee -- that will do them in.

Bradley's Bromide

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Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users?

Clifford Stoll

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Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.

Doug Larson

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Even My Mum Could Catch It ! ! !

-- In His Yorkshire Drawl , Sir Geoffery Boycot -- Whenever Fairly Simple Catches Are Dropped

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Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

E. W. Dijkstra

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Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.

Edward Shepherd Mead

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To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.

Farmers' Almanac, 1978

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To err is human, but to accept it, takes guts.



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I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

Isaac Asimov 1920 - 1992

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Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.

Isaac Asimov 1920 - 1992

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Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up.

James Magary

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Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.

Jef Raskin, interviewed in Doctor Dobb's Journal

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The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against wacking them around a little.

Joe Martin, Porterfield

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One would think that if you're anonymous, you'd do anything you want, but groups have their own sense of community and what we can do.

John Allen, A network called 'Internet', CBC, 10-08-93

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In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear.

John C. Dvorak

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There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.

Ken Olsen 1926 - , President, Digital Equipment, 1977

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The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.

Nathaniel Borenstein 1957

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Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

Pablo Picasso 1881 - 1973

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The computer is a moron.

Peter Drucker 1909 - 2005

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If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out of it but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and no-one dares criticize it.

Pierre Gallois

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Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.

Rick Cook, The Wizardry Compiled

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To err is human--and to blame it on a computer is even more so.

Robert Orben

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To err is human--and to blame it on a computer is even more so. Because All the operations and Softwares are done by Human.

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If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.

Robert X. Cringely, InfoWorld magazine

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I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.

Stephen Hawking 1942 -

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All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.

Unknown


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In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.

Unknown


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Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vaccuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1.5 tons.

Unknown ; Popular Mechanics, March 1949


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There Is No Life Without A Wife ! ! !


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Self-conceit may lead to self-destruction.

Aesop 620 BC - 560 BC, The Frog and the Ox


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The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.

Aesop 620 BC - 560 BC,

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When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.

Bernard Bailey


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Conceit is God's gift to little men.

Bruce Barton


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What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.

Epictetus 55 AD - 135 AD, Discourses


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The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.

John Blake


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An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.

Joseph Addison 1672 - 1719

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We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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For God hates utterly
The bray of bragging tongues.

Sophocles 496 BC - 406 BC

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The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

Thomas Carlyle 1795 - 1881

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There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.'

Andre Gide 1869 - 1951

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I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

Anna Freud Austrian psychoanalyst & psychologist 1895 - 1982

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Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.

Arnold Bennett

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Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.

Arnold Palmer 1929 -

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Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.

Baltasar Gracian

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The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.

Hasidic Saying

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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.

Mark Twain 1835 - 1910, Letter to Mrs Foote, Dec. 2, 1887

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Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy

Norman Vincent Peale 1898 - 1993

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It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever.

Philip Adams

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If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.

Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 - 1882

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You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.

Rosalynn Carter 1927 -

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You can be confident and secure and know that you do a good job at what you do. But you don't know to be arrogant about it.

Ruben Studdard, Seventeen Magazine, September 2003

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Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Samuel Johnson 1709 - 1784

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