You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
--Mark Twain, (1835-1910)
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
--Mark Twain, (1835-1910)
You can't say civilization isn't advancing, in every war they kill you in a new way.
--Will Rogers, American humorist (1879-1935)
Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like.
--Will Rogers
I would rather be the man who bought the Brooklyn Bridge than the one who sold it.
--Will Rogers
God is subtle, but he is not malicious.
--Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
--Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.
--Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
One of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the great struggle for independence.
--Charles A. Beard, historian (1874-1948)
Make things as simple as possible, but not simpler.
--Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Work to become, not to acquire.
--Elbert Hubbard
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
-- Elbert Hubbard
I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.
--Elbert Hubbard
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
--Abraham Lincoln
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
--Nathaniel Hawthorne, (1804-1864)
And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
--Abraham Lincoln
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
--Abraham Lincoln
Most of us are just about as happy as we make up our minds to be.
--Abraham Lincoln (1809-65)
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
--Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. general and 34th president (1890-1969)
Let him that would move the world, first move himself.
--Socrates
The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.
--Plato
There is no fundamental difference between man and the lower animals in their mental faculties... The lower animals, like man, manifestly feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.
-Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
He who allows oppression, shares the crime.
--Erasmus Darwin
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