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He who allows oppression shares the crime.

- Erasmus Darwin

Everything is impossible for the people who never try anything.

- Jean-Louis Etienne

Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.

- Dorothy Parker

If we live good lives, the times are also good.  As we are, such are the times.

- St. Augustine

Peace is not God’s gift to His creatures.  It is our gift to each other.

- Elie Wiesel

Men without ideals are quantitative; they can appreciate the concepts of more and less, but they can never distinguish the best from the worst.

- Jorge Ingenieros

We learn only when it is too late that the marvel is the passing moment.

- Francois Mitterand

You look not back through time but down through it, like water.  Sometimes this comes to the surface, sometimes that, sometimes nothing.

- Margaret Atwood

The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting in above-average effort.

-  Colin Powell

Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds – the most powerful ones are those we can’t even describe, aren’t even aware of.

- Ellen Goodman

Jealousy never allows reason to judge things as they really are. Jealous people see things through an inverted looking glass, which turns small things large, dwarves into giants and suspicions into truths.

- Miguel de Cervantes

Nothing is worth more than this day.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

-  LeoTolstoy

I see my path, but don’t know where it leads.  Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it.

-  Rosalia de Castro

Once the game is over, the king and the pawn return to the same box.

- Italian proverb

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.

- Abraham Lincoln

When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.

- Joseph Campbell

You can handle people more successfully by enlisting their feelings than by convincing their reason.

- Paul P. Parker

Friendship multiply joys and divide grief.

- Thomas Fuller

We are here to help one another along life’s journey.

- William Bennett

We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.

-  Harold Nicolson

Pay attention to your enemies for they are the first to discover your mistakes.

- Antithenes

No two men are alike and both of them are happy for it.

- Morris Mandel

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

-  Abraham Lincoln

I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge.

-  Gerald Jampolsky

The real act of discovery is not in finding new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.

-  Marcel Proust

If man does not learn from history, he will be condemned to relive it.

- George Santayana

Opportunities are like sunrises.  If you wait too long, you miss them.

-   William Arthur Ward

Every generation needs to know that freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.

-  Pope John Paul II

It is an all-too human frailty to suppose that a favorable wind will blow forever.

-  Rick Bode

Learning is not attained by chance.  It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.

-  Abigail Adams

Let no man imagine that he has no influence.

- Henry George

If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start at all.

-  Dan Rather/ Peter Wyden

Gain all you can, save all you can, give all you can.

- John Wesley

Adversity is like a strong wind.  It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn so that we see ourselves as we really are.

- Arthur Golden

Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.

- Abrahan Lincoln

Nothing lasts forever – not even you troubles.

- Arnold Glasow

Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man.

-  Louis Nizer

The events of our lives happen not in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves, they find their own order.

- Eudora Welty

He who sings frightens away his ills.

-  Cervantes

Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The great man is he who does not lose his child heart.

-  Mencius

The want to be does not tell.  The amateur tells the words.  The professional tells the story.  The artist tells the audience.  The Communicator tells all.

- Wayfarer Tomm

I expect to pass through this world but once;

Any good thing, therefore, that I can do,

Or any kindness that I can show let me do it now.

Let me not defer nor neglect it,

For I may never pass this way again.

You can’t write poetry on the computer.

-  Quentin Tarantino

Being truthful when you know it will cost you is the true test of honesty.

-  Dave Weinbaum

Peace does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble or hard work.  Peace means to be in the midst of all those things and still be calm in your heart.