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“You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.”
Robert Frost
“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.”
Carl Sagan
“No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.”
Thomas Carlyle
“I don’t need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.”
Ray Bradbury
“Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.”
Plutarch
“Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Being tall is an advantage, especially in business. People will always remember you. And if you're in a crowd, you'll always have some clean air to breathe.”
Julia Child
“Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.”
Ambrose Bierce
“You can't test courage cautiously.”
Annie Dillard
“Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.”
Diogenes of Sinope
“Love and work... work and love, that's all there is.”
Sigmund Freud
“More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.”
George Eliot
“Not even old age knows how to love death.”
Sophocles
“God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us.”
Charles Stanley
“There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.”
Buddha
“We would not have our politics distracted and embittered by the dissensions of other lands.”
Henry Cabot Lodge
“Never let your schooling interfere with your education.”
Mark Twain
“Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.”
Tennessee Williams
“A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.”
Yogi Berra
“Never let your schooling interfere with your education.”
Mark Twain
“I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.”
Will Rogers
“Life without fun is too boring.”
Natasha Yakovleva