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1 "If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve." -Gen. William Sherman, Politics
2 "You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try." -Beverly Sills ,Success/Failure
3 "Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them." -Charles Simic ,Poetry
4 "Fascism is capitalism plus murder." -Upton Sinclair ,Dectator
5 "Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life." -Michael Sinz ,Program
6 "The lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul; but it has to come to heel." -Logan Pearsall Smith, Soul
7 Socrates - "Wisdom begins in wonder." - "The unexamined life is not worth living." - "My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher." Philosophy- "Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued." Life
8 "Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud." and "Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way." -Sophocles ,Honore
9 John Lancaster Spalding,- "The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds." doubt - "As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape." Memory
10 "Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice." -Baruch Spinoza ,Peace
11 "One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic." -Josef Stalin ,Death
12 General John Stark,: Live Free Or Die; Death Is Not The Worst of Evils. Liberty
13 "Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it." -Roger Starr ,Money
14 "Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant." -Robert Louis Stephenson ,Growth
15 "Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice." -Adlai Stevenson ,Communism
16 "There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature." -Stephen Stills ,Men & Women
17 "Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn." -Igor Stravinski ,Money
18 "Form follows function." -Louis Henri Sullivan, Desin
19 "After the verb 'to Love,' 'to Help' is the most beautiful verb in the world." -Bertha von Suttner ,Goodness20 "We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own." -Ben Sweetland ,Generosity
21 "Men are like a deck of cards. You'll find the occasional king, but most are jacks." -Laura Swenson ,Men22 "May you live every day of your life." -Jonathan Swift ,Life
23 Publilius Syrus,- "To do two things at once is to do neither." Effort- "Practice is the best of all instructors." practice- "He who lives in solitude may make his own laws."
24Tacitus "Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader." Leader- "It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured." Insult
25 "Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven." -Rabindranath Tagore, Plants
26 "Ours not to reason why,Ours but to do and die." -Alfred Lord Tennyson ,Duty
27 "There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write." -William Makepeace Thackeray ,Auth/Writ
28 "If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag; wash it." -Norman Thomas ,Protest
29 Henry David Thoreau, - "A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can let alone." Wealth- "Be true to your work, your word, and your friend." Truth- "Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it." and "Men are born to succeed, not to fail." Success/Failure- "Dreams are the touchstones of our character." Dreams- "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined." Confidence
30 "He who does not have the courage to speak up for his rights cannot earn the respect of others." -Ren?G. Torres ,Bravery
31 -Mark Twain - "If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything." - "Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed." Belief
32 "He who knows others is wise.He who knows himself is enlightened." -Lao Tzu, People
33 "Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or doing it better." -John Updike Creativity
34 "All that Communism needs to make it successful is someone to feed and clothe it." -'Columbia Record' ,Communism
35 Voltaire - "Man is free at the moment he wishes to be." Freedom- "All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God." Religion- "We are rarely proud when we are alone." Solitude
36 Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration." -Charles Dudley Warner,Food
37 "Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him." -Booker T. Washington, Responsibility
38 George Washington - "Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected." Duty- "Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation." Friends- "Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action." Govenrnment
39 All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work. (founder of IBM) -Thomas J. Watson /Thought
40 "In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building has three conditions: Commodity, Firmness and Delight." -Henry Watton ,Design
41 For Satan finds some mischief stillFor idle hands to do. -Isaac Watts /Laziness
42 "No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one." -Archibald Wavell, /Leader
43 The weakest arm is strong enough, that strikesWith the sword of justice. -John Webster, Justice
44 "In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down." -Brian Weir ,Inspirational
45 "Hope is the denial of reality." -Margaret Weis, Hope
46 "A good listener tries to understand thoroughly what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but before he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with." -Kenneth A. Wells, Guide to Good Leadership ,Listening
47 "Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy." -Franz Werfel ,
48 "Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can." -John Wesley ,Generosity
49 "The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars." -William Westmoreland ,War
50 When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power. -Hugh White ,Motivation
51 "No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen." -Minor White ,Photography
52 "The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live." -Flora Whittemore ,Opportunity
53 "The problem with the person who thinks he's a long-term investor and impervious to short-term gyrations is that the emotion of fear and pain will eventually make him sell badly." -Robert Wibbelsman ,Investment
54 Oscar Wilde - "Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat." Women- "Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance." Men & Women- "True friends stab you in the front." Friends- "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." Experience- "Consistency is the last resort of the unimaginative." Imagination
55 "I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for..." -Thornton Wilder ,Goodness
56 "You carry the future of the country in your schoolbags." -Williams ,Education
57 "The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost." -William Carlos Williams ,Work
58 "The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it." -Colin Wilson ,Thought
59 "The definition of a beautiful woman is one who loves me." -Sloan Wilson ,Beauty
60 "Nothing recedes like success." -Walter Winchell ,Success/Failure
61 If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it. -Jonathan Winters ,Opportunity
62 "Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language." -Ludwig Wittgenstein ,Philosophy
63 In the absence of love, there is nothing worth fighting for. -Elijah Wood ,Love
64 I am the toughest golfer mentally. -Tiger Woods ,Golf
65 Sarah Chauncey Woolsey,-"Men die, but sorrow never dies; The crowding years divide in vain, And the wide world is knit with ties of common brotherhood in pain." Death- "These are weighty secrets, and we must whisper them." Wisdom
66 "To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears." -William Wordsworth, Plants
67 "Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint." -J. B. Yeats, Personality
68 "Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." -William Butler Yeats ,Education
69 "Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life." -Brigham Young ,Inspirational
70 Edward Young,- "For her own breakfast she 'll project a scheme, Nor take her tea without a stratagem." Women- "Procrastination is the thief of time." Time- "Time flies, death urges, knells call, Heaven invites, Hell threatens." Life- "Wishing, of all employments, is the worst." Hope
71 "You should examine yourself daily. If you find faults, you should correct them. When you find none, you should try even harder." -Israel Zangwill, Self-Respect
72 "It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!" -Emiliano Zapata ,Honor
73 "I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel." -Peter Nivio Zarlenga ,Imagination
74 "You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses." -Ziggy ,Attitude
75 "The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work." -Emile Zola ,Art