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1 A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special. -Nelson Mandela,Personality
2 Og Mandino - "Do all things with love." - "Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished." Love
3 "A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man." -Thomas Mann, Solitude
4 Every good communist should know that political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. -Mao Tse Tung ,Gun Control
5 Orison Swett Marden - "A will finds a way." Attitude- "The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone." Opportunity
6 Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy. -Jacques Maritain,Gratitude
7 Don Marquis - "Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun." Instinct- "Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo." Poetry- "Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue." Virtue
8 "Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens -- and then everybody disagrees." -Boris Marshalov ,Congress
9 One of the good things about getting older is you find you're more interesting than most of the people you meet. -Lee Marvin, Age
10 "From each, according to his ability; to each, according to his need." -Karl Marx ,Socialism/communism
11 "You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat." -Christy Mathewson ,Baseball
12 It is remarkable how similar the pattern of love is to the pattern of insanity. -The Matrix ,Love
13 "A lawful kiss is never worth a stolen one." -Maupassant ,Kisses
14 Failure is not reaching your goal, but in having no goal to reach. -Benjamin Mays ,Goals
15 "The harder you work, the luckier you get." -McAlexander ,Effort
16 "The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it." -Mignon McLaughlin, Rvolution
17 Marshall McLuhan - "There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew." Earth-"Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's jobs with yesterday's tools." Tecchnology
18 "Sometimes it is a great joy just to listen to someone we love talking." -Vincent McNabb,Listening
19 "Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire." -Margaret Mead ,Retire
20 "We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right." -Nelson Mendela, Goodness
21 Man is a machine and in the whole universe there is but a single substance, matter, variously modified. -Julien de la Mettrie, The Human Machine, 1748 ,Humanity
22 "I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free." -Michelangelo Buonarroti ,Art
23 After thirty, a body has a mind of its own. -Bette Midler ,Age
24 Henry Miller - "In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest." Difficculty- "Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him." Fate/Destiny- "I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive." happy- A book is not only a friend, it makes friends for you. When you have possessed a book with mind and spirit, you are enriched. But when you pass it on you are enriched threefold. Reading
25 "Don't take life seriously because you can't come out of it alive." -Warren Miller ,Life
26 "There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but only one view." -Harry Millner,Journe
y27 "I was taught very early that I would have to depend entirely upon myself; that my future lay in my own hands." -Darius Ogden Mills ,Responsibility
28 "A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That's basic spelling that every woman ought to know." -Mistinguett ,Kisses
28 "A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation." -Moli?e, Insult
29 -Michel de Montaigne - "He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak." Argu/Deb- "There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees." - What do I know? Enlightenment
30 "He who hasn't hacked assemply language as a youth has no heart. He who does as an adult has no brain." -John Moore ,Programe31 "We create an environment where it is alright to hate, to steal, to cheat, and to lie if we dress it up with symbols of respectability, dignity and love." -Whitney Moore, Jr. ,America
32 Sweet is the dream, divinely sweet, when absent souls in fancy meet. -Sir Thomas More ,Literary
33 "Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity." -Christopher Morley ,Conformaity/nonconformity
34 Mother Theresa - "There are no great things, only small things with great love. Happy are those." Greatness/Great things- "If you judge people, you have no time to love them." Love
35 "Surely the glory of journalism is its transience." -Malcolm Muggeridge
36 "Through struggle to the stars." -Motto of the Mulvany family ,Struggle
37 "The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks." -Rupert Murdoch ,Money
38 "There is no way to peace; peace is the way." -A. J. Muste ,Peace
39 Vladimir Nabokov,- "I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is." Memory- "Solitude is the playfield of Satan." Solitude
40 "The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge." -Stephen Nachmanovitch ,Creation
41 "Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever." -Napoleon ,Glory
42 "I felt invincible. My strength was that of a giant. God was certainly standing by me. I smashed five saloons with rocks before I ever took a hatchet." -Carry Nation ,Strength
43 Martina Navratilova, - I think the key is for women not to set any limits. Women
44 "Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy." -Cynthia Nelms ,Happyness
45 "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference." -Reinhold Niebuhr ,Attitude
46 "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." -Friedrich Nietzsche,,Forgiveness
47 I'm grateful for the opportunity to live on this beautiful and astonishing planet Earth. In the morning, I wake up with a sense of gratitude. -Earl Nightingale ,Gratitude
48 -Anais Nin - "Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country." Dreams- "When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow." Growth- "The only abnormality is the incapacity to love." love
49 "If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together." -Richard Milhous Nixon ,Equality
50 Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age. -Alfred Nobel ,Agriculture
51 "90% of the people in the stock market, professionals and amateurs alike, simply haven't done enough homework." -William J. O'Neil ,Investment
52 "Happiness hates the timid! So does science!" -Eugene O'Neill, Shyness
53 "When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators." -P. J. O'Rourke ,Politics
54 Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating. -O. Henry, Life
55 "Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense." -Marcus Tullius Cicero De Officiis ,Justice-"The more laws, the less justice."
56 "I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."N.B.: This is a paraphrase from the ancient Hindu text, the Bhagavad Gita. -J. Robert Oppenheimer, On the invention of the atom bomb ,Technology
57 "Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price." -Robert Orben ,Inflation
58 He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past." -George Orwell ,power- "Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice." Society
59 "Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish." -Ovid ,Hope
60 "I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it." -Dorothy Parker ,Wealth
61 "In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind." -Louis Pasteur, lecture ,Observation
52 "To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong." -Joseph Chilton Pearce ,Creativity
53 Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop pedaling. -Claude Pepper, Persistence
54 "He conquers who endures." -Persius ,Persistence
55 "Practice is everything" or "Practice makes perfect." -Periander
56 Laurence J. Peter - "In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence." Bureaucracy- "Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push, and you push alone." Effort- "Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience." Opportunity
57 "Today, if you are not confused, you are just not thinking clearly." -U. Peter ,Confusion
58 "Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant." -J. Petit-Senn, Self-respect
59 "Wear the old coat and buy the new book." -Austin Phelps ,Reading
60 "The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper." -Eden Phillpotts ,Progress61 "I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money." -Pablo Picasso ,Wealth- "Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock."
62 "What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal." -Albert Pike ,Death
63 "At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet." -Plato ,Love
64 "'He means well' is useless unless he does well." -Plautus ,Intention
65 "The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled." -Plutarch ,Thought
66 "Playing football in the morning is like eating cabbage for breakfast." -Pressbox Maxim ,Foodball
67 Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself." -J. B. Priestley,Pride
68 "Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed." -Michael Pritchard ,Fear
69 "Her children arise up, and call her blessed." -Proverbs ,Mother's day
70 The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one other person." -Vi Putnam ,Relationship
71 "The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt." -Ayn Rand, Acceptance-"So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?" Money
72 Three billion people on the face of the earth go to bed hungry every night, but four billion people go to bed every night hungry for a simple word of encouragement and recognition. -Cavett Robert ,Support
73 "Only a brave person is willing to honestly admit, and fearlessly to face, what a sincere and logical mind discovers." -Rodan of Alexandria, Bravery
74 "Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." -Will Rogers ,Effort
75 Eleanor Roosevelt - "It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself." Action- "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." Dream- You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." . . . You must do the thing you think you cannot do. Motivational
76 Franklin D. Roosevelt,- "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." Fear- "When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on." Tenacity- "There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still." Progress
77 Theodore Roosevelt - "Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." Effort- Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far. Virtue
78 "Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream." -Roger Rosenblatt, Solitude
79 I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all. -Leo Rosten ,Motivational
80 "If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today." -Rotarian ,Memory
81 "Solitude vivifies; isolation kills." -Joseph Roux,Solitude
82 My advice to any diplomat who wants to have a good press is to have two or three kids and a dog. -Carl Rowan, Deplomacy
83 Bertrand Russell - "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." Doubt- "Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education." Ignorance/Stupidity- "To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead." Love
84 "The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn." -David Russell ,Journey
85 "Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are." -Charles Augustin Sainte-Beauve ,Love
86 "Assumptions allow the best in life to pass you by." -John Sales ,Assumtions
87 "Good questions outrank easy answers." -Paul A. Samuelson ,Question
88 George Santayana,- "I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads." Facts- "The Soul is the voice of the body's interests." Seoul- "Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it." History
89 "The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it." -Alan Saporta ,Problems
90 "Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears." -Robert W. Sarnoff , Money
91 "Everything has been figured out, except how to live." -Jean-Paul Sartre ,Life
92 Anthropology is the only discipline that can access evidence about the entire human experience on this planet. -Michael Brian Schiffer ,Science
93 "He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times." -Johann von Schiller ,Legacy
94 "The ballot is stronger than bullets." -Joseph Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy ,Democracy
95 "Leadership is a combination of strategy and character. If you must be without one, be without the strategy." -Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf ,Leadership
96 "Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier." -Albert Schweitzer ,Life
97 A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand." -Seneca, Letters to Lucilius ,Gun Control
98 William Shakespeare, - "Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt." Doubt- In my stars I am above thee; but be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. Greatness/Great things
99 George Bernard Shaw - "All great truths begin as blasphemies." Truth- "Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough." Time- "Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world." Perception - "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." Liberty- "England and America are two countries separated by the same language." America- "A man never tells you anything until you contradict him." Argu/Deb- "Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious." Instinc
100 Arthur F. Sheldon,"He profits most who serves best." Work