To handle yourself, use your head;
To handle others, use your heart.
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The ability to delude yourself may be
an important survival tool.
(Jane Wagner)
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Dictionary is the only place where
Death comes before Life,
Success before Work &
Divorce before Marriage,
but Friend comes before Relative !
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To know how to wait is
the great secret of success.
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A man should never be ashamed
to admit that he is in the wrong,
which is but saying
that he is wiser today
than he was yesterday.
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I have never let my schooling
interfere with my education.
(Mark Twain)
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Moral is
when your hands and feet keep working,
although your head says it cannot be done.
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The oldest and the shortest words
"YES" and "NO" are those
which require the most thought.
(Pythagoras)
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The art of understanding people comes
when one overcomes the habit of judging others.
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Common sense is
the collection of prejudices
acquired by age eighteen.
Albert Einstein
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Once the game is over,
the King and the pawn
go back in the same box.
Italian Proverb
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Isn't it interesting that
the same people who laugh at science fiction
listen to weather forecasts and economists?
Kelvin Throop III
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The only reason some people
get lost in thought is
because it's unfamiliar territory.
Paul Fix
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Anyone who uses the phrase
'easy as taking candy from a baby'
has never tried
taking candy from a baby.
Unknown
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Only two things are infinite,
the universe and human stupidity,
and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein
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A person who trusts no one,
can't be trusted.
Jerome Blattner
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I'm an idealist.
I don't know where I'm going,
but I'm on my way.
Carl Sandburg
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Procrastination is the art
of keeping up with yesterday.
Don Marquis
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When I was a boy
I was told that
anybody could become President.
Now I'm beginning to believe it.
Clarence Darrow
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Act quickly, think slowly.
Greek Proverb
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Power will intoxicate the best hearts,
as wine the strongest heads.
No man is wise enough,
nor good enough
to be trusted with unlimited power.
- Charles Colton -
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The art of being wise is
the art of knowing
what to overlook.
- William James -
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One of the oldest of human needs is
having someone to wonder
where you are
when you don't come home at night.
- Margaret Mead -
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A sense of humor is part of
the art of leadership,
of getting along with people,
of getting things done.
(Dwight Eisenhower)
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What is the difference between
a stumbling block and a stepping stone?
Your approach to it.
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Technology is dominated by two types of people:
those who understand what they do not manage,
and those who manage what they do not understand.
(Putt's Law)
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Rich is
not he who has much,
but he who gives much.
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I like work;
it fascinates me.
I can sit and look at it for hours.
(Jerome K. Jerome)
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Failure is
not in falling down,
but refusing to get up.
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Advertisements contain the only truths
that can be relied on,
in a newspaper.
(Mark Twain)
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Education is what survives when
what has been learned,
has been forgotten
(B. F. Skinner)
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Though no one can go back
and make a brand new start;
but anyone can start from now
and make a brand new end.
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There must be more to life
than having everything.
(Maurice Sendak)
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LOVE looks through a telescope;
ENVY looks through a microscope.
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Everyone has beauty
but not everyone sees it.
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Anger is a condition in which
the tongue works faster than the mind.
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You can't change the past,
but you can ruin the present
by worrying over the future.
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All people smile
in the same language.
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Everyone needs to be loved,
especially when they do not deserve it.
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Take time to laugh,
for it is the music of the soul.
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For every minute you are angry with someone,
you lose sixty seconds of happiness
that you can never get back.
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What we have done
for ourselves alone
dies with us.
What we have done
for others and the world
remains and is immortal.
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A hug is a great gift.
One size fits all.
It can be given for any occasion
and it's easy to exchange.
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I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day,
a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere
behind the morning.
J.B. Priestly*
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar Wilde
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There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.
Malcolm Forbes
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I wish I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people
to throw me all their wasted hours.
Bernard Berenson
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Every memorable act in the history of the world is a triumph of
enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it because it
gives any challenge or any occupation, no matter how frightening or
difficult, a new meaning. Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a
life of mediocrity but with it you can accomplish miracles.
Og Mandino
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A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions
your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
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The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting
started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small
manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.
Mark Twain
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Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere
in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
Bill Watterson
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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
W. Somerset Maugham
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The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me.
They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the
business of government; they have only a talent for getting and
holding office.
H. L. Mencken
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Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your
eyes off your goal.
Henry Ford
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Love is grand;
divorce is a hundred grand.
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I am in shape.
Round is a shape.
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Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.
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Never be afraid to try something new.
Remember, amateurs built the ark, professionals built the Titanic.
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Conscience is what hurts when everything else feels so good.
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Talk is cheap because supply exceeds demand.
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Even if you are on the right track,
you'll get run over if you just sit there.
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Politicians and diapers have one thing in common. They should both be
changed regularly and for the same reason.
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An optimist thinks that this is the best possible world.
A pessimist fears that this is true.
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There will always be death and taxes;however, death doesn't get worse
every year.
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In just two days, tomorrow will be yesterday.
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A day without sunshine is like night.
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If marriage were outlawed, only outlaws would have in-laws.
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It's frustrating when you know all the answers,
but nobody bothers to ask you the questions.
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The real art of conversation is not only to
say the right thing at the right time,
but also to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
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Brain cells come and brain cells go, but fat cells live forever.
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Age doesn't always bring wisdom.
Sometimes age comes alone.
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Life not only begins at forty,
it also begins to show.
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You don't stop laughing because you grow old,
you grow old because you stopped laughing.
(source : email from a friend)