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"War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children."
-Jimmy Carter
"The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his education and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which; he simply pursues his vision of excellence in whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he is always doing both."
-Buddha
"The World is not dangerous because of those who do harm but because of those who look at it without doing anything."
-Albert Einstein
"If we would please in society, we must be prepared to be taught many things we know already by people who do not know them."
-Sebastien Roch Nicolas Chamfort
"Men of ill judgement oft ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it."
-Sophocles
"Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it."
-Albert Einstein
"Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations."
-Edward de Bono
"Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit."
-Henry Brooks Adams
"When the well's dry, we know the worth of water."
-Benjamin Franklin
"Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possess one."
-Johann Wolfgang Van Goethe
"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going."
-Beverly Sills
"You'll always miss 100% of the shots you don't take."
-Wayne Gretzky
"Joy shared is twice the joy. Sorrow shared is half the sorrow."
-anonymous
"Everything happens for a reason; If you can't find a reason for something, there's a reason for that."
-Chris Levi
"The heart has its reasons that reason does not know."
-Blaise Pascal
"You point your finger at the moon, the fool stares at your finger."
-Chinese Proverb
"Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more."
-Mark Twain
"Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. So aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something."
-Henry David Thoreau
"The harder you fight to hold on to specific assumptions, the more likely there's gold in letting go of them."
-John Seely Brown
"Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true."
-Honore de Balzac
"The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything -- or nothing."
-Nancy Astor
"Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting."
-Sun-Tzu
"In the long run, we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving."
-Sheldon Kopp
"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."
-T. S. Eliot
"To light a candle is to cast a shadow."
-Ursula K. LeGuin
"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."
-Bill Cosby
"It is not enough for a handful of experts to attempt the solution of a problem, to solve it and then to apply it. The restriction of knowledge to an elite group destroys the spirit of society and leads to its intellectual impoverishment."
-Albert Einstein
"You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note."
-Doug Floyd
"It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary."
-Winston Churchill
"To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day."
-Winston Churchill
"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today."
-Abraham Lincoln
"The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live."
-Flora Whittemore
"You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you."
-Eric Hoffer
"People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost."
-H. Jackson Browne
"The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected."
-Cousin Woodman
"It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence."
-Mohandas K. Gandhi
"In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists."
-Eric Hoffer
"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."
-Douglas Adams
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius--and a lot of courage--to move in the opposite direction."
-Ernst F. Schumacher
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."
-Albert Einstein
"Whatever does not kill me makes me stronger."
-Friedrich Nietzsche