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quotes[0]="The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. Eleanor Roosevelt (1884- 1962); US writer and politician.
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quotes[1]="There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science. Louis Pasteur (1822-1895); French biologist & bacteriologist.
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quotes[2]="To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly; Henri Bergson (1859 - 1941) French philosopher.
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quotes[3]="The important thing is never to stop asking questions. Albert Einstein (1879-1955); physicist and mathematician.
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quotes[4]="Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ); English physicist & science fiction author.
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quotes[5]="Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it. George Orwell (1903 -1950); English essayist, novelist, & satirist.
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quotes[6]="If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. Latin proverb.
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quotes[7]="Time is the image of eternity. Plato (427 BC - 347 BC); Greek philosopher.
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quotes[8]="Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars. Henry Van Dyke (1852-1933); US writer.
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quotes[9]="There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. Aldous Huxley (1894-1963); English author.
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quotes[10]="I accept chaos. I am not sure whether it accepts me. Bob Dylan (1941); US singer/songwriter.
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quotes[11]="Life is a long lesson in humility. James M. Barrie (1860-1937); Scottish dramatist & novelist.
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quotes[12]="Don't look to technology for solutions to physical security problems. Anonymous
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quotes[13]="A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both; Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969), US general & politician
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quotes[14]="What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well; Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900-1944). French writer.
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quotes[15]="Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study; Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626). English author and philosopher.
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quotes[16]="Inspiration is the opportunity of genius. Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850); French writer.
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quotes[17]="The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences; Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778). French philosopher.
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quotes[18]="It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist; Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955). French philosopher and theologist.
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quotes[19]="The World was created to be recreated; Georges Duhamel (1884-1966). French writer.
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quotes[20]="Many a truth sprang from an error; Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830 - 1916). Austrian novelist.
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quotes[21]="Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth; Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 BC-43 BC.). Roman orat
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quotes[22]="Practice and thought might gradually forge many an art; Virgil (70 BC - 19 BC). Roman poet. or, philosopher, statesman.
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quotes[23]="The two most powerful warriors are patience and time; Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910). Russian novelist.
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quotes[24]="It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge; Enrico Fermi (1901-1954) US Italian-born physicist
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quotes[25]="History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time. Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC); Roman author, orator, & politician.
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quotes[26]="There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person. G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936); English author & mystery novelist.
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quotes[27]="An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. Victor Hugo (1802-1885); French novelist.
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quotes[28]="Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. Mark Twain (1835-1910); US humorist &, novelist.
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quotes[29]="Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm. Malayan proverb.
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quotes[30]="Nothing resists as much as the provisional. André Maurois (1885-1967); French novelist, essayist, biographer.
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quotes[31]="Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia. Charles M. Schulz (1922-2000), US cartoonist
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quotes[32]="Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809 - 1892); English poet.
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quotes[33]="It is by acts and not by ideas that people live. Anatole France (1844-1924); French novelist.
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quotes[34]="There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start. Charles Baudelaire (1821- 1867); French writer, poet.
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quotes[35]="The path of precept is long, that of example short and effectual. Seneca (5 BC-65 AD); Roman dramatist, philosopher, & politician.
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quotes[36]="Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948); Indian politician.
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quotes[37]="Progress consists of change. Miguel de Unamuno (1864-1936); Spanish philosopher and writer.
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quotes[38]="The words of the world want to make sentences. Gaston Bachelard (1884-1962); French philosopher and essayist.
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quotes[39]="As long as you live, keep learning how to live. Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2 BC-65 AD); Roman philosopher.
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quotes[40]="A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it. Francis Bacon(1561-1626); British philosopher and statesman.
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quotes[41]="Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause. Voltaire (1694-1778); French philosopher and writer.
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quotes[42]="Retention is the hallmark of capacity. Baltasar Gracián (1601-1658); Spanish writer.
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quotes[43]="If my hand was clenched full of truths, I would very much refrain from opening it. Bernard Le Bouvier de Fontenelle (1657-1757); French writer.
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quotes[44]="The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong. Georges Bidault (1899-1983); French politician.
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quotes[45]="You should avoid replacing the world of the others with yours. José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955); Spanish essayist, philosopher.
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quotes[46]="Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. Marie Curie (1867-1934); French (Polish-born) chemist & physicist.
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quotes[47]="There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person. Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936); British writer.
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quotes[48]="What is past is prologue. William Shakespeare (1564-1616); English playwright, poet.
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quotes[49]="Education is the best provision for old age. Aristotles (384 BC-322 BC); Greek philosopher.
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quotes[50]="It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well. René Descartes (1596-1650); French philosopher and mathematician.
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quotes[51]="The age of your heart is the age of what you love. Marcel Prévost (1862-1941); French writer.
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quotes[52]="Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. William Cowper (1731 - 1800); English poet.
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quotes[53]="Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened. Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965); British politician.
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quotes[54]="You may delay, but time will not. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790); US politician.
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quotes[55]="Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831); German philosopher.
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quotes[56]="A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times. Lord Acton (1834-1902); British historian.
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quotes[57]="It is far better to foresee even without certainty than not to foresee at all. Henri Poincare (1854-1912); French mathematician.
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quotes[58]="Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't. Mark Twain (1835-1910) US humorist & novelist.
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quotes[59]="Hope herself ceases to be happiness when Impatience companions her. John Ruskin (1819-1900); British writer and critic.
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quotes[60]="In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. Bertrand Russell (1872-1970); English writer philosopher and mathematician.
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quotes[61]="My interest is in the future, because that's where I'll be spending the rest of my life. Woody Allen (1935); US actor, movie director and writer.
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quotes[62]="I can believe the impossible, but not the improbable. Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936); British writer.
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quotes[63]="Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit. Ovid (43 BC - AD 17) Roman poet.
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quotes[64]="I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back. Abraham Lincoln (1808-1865); US politician.
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quotes[65]="Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. Confucius (551 BC - 478 BC); Chinese philosopher.
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quotes[66]="He was a bold man that first ate an oyster. Jonathan Swift (1667-1745); Irish novelist.
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quotes[67]="There is no serious thing that cannot be said with a smile. Alejandro Casona (1903-1965); Spanish dramatist.
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quotes[68]="If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. Anatole France (1844-1924); French writer.
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quotes[69]="Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens. Epictetus (55 AD-135 AD); Greek-born Roman philosopher.
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quotes[70]="Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced and the inconvenience is often considerable. Jane Austen (1775-1817); English novelist.
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quotes[71]="Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804); German philosopher.
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quotes[72]="Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth. Thomas Fuller (1608-1661); British Clergyman, author.
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quotes[73]="We build too many walls and not enough bridges. Isaac Newton (1643-1727); English mathematician.
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quotes[74]="The difference between the past, the present and the future is only a persistent illusion. Albert Einstein (1879-1955); physicist and mathematician.
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quotes[75]="The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it. Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900); Irish playwright, novelist.
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quotes[76]="Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough. Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880); French writer.
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quotes[77]="There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know. Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914); US writer.
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quotes[78]="You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him discover it in himself. Galileo Galilei (1564-1642); Italian astronomer and physicist.
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quotes[79]="It's kind of fun to do the impossible. Walt Disney (1901-1966); US cartoonist and movie producer.
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quotes[80]="The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold. Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC); Greek philosopher.
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quotes[81]="Absence of proof is not proof of absence. Carl Sagan (1934-1996); US astronomer.
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quotes[82]="In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior. Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626); British philosopher and statesman.
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quotes[83]="Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent. Count of Rivarol (1753-1801); French writer.
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quotes[84]="As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2 BC - 65 BC); Roman philosopher.
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quotes[85]="Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger. Benjamin Disraeli (1808-1881); British statesman.
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quotes[86]="Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss. Epicurus (341 BC - 270 BC); Greek philosopher.
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quotes[87]="None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), German poet.
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quotes[88]="Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us. Oscar Wilde (1856 - 1900) Anglo-Irish playwright, novelist.
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quotes[89]="I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace is an interlude during war. Georges Benjamin Clemenceau (1841-1929); French statesman.
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quotes[90]="No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another. Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870); English novelist.
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quotes[91]="In giving advice, seek to help, not please, your friend. Solon (638 BC-559 BC); Greek lawgiver.
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quotes[92]="Advice is judged by results, not by intentions. Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC); Roman author, orator, & politician.
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quotes[93]="Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forward. Sören Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855); Danish philosopher.
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quotes[94]="A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950); Irish dramatist & socialist.
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quotes[95]="Between two explanations, choose the clearest; between two forms, the most elementary; between two expressions, the shortest. Eugeni d' Ors (1881-1954); Spanish writer.
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quotes[96]="It is always in season for old men to learn. Aeschylus (525-456 BC); Greek poet.
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quotes[97]="Ignorance is less remote from truth than prejudice. Denis Diderot(1713-1784); French writer.
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quotes[98]="We are what we repeatedly do. Aristotle (384-322 BC); Greek philosopher.
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quotes[99]="As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information. Benjamin Disraeli (1804 -1881); British politician.
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quotes[100]="Our ignorance of history makes us libel to our own times. People have always been like this. Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880); French writer
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quotes[101]="Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem. John Galsworthy (1867-1933); English writer.
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quotes[102]="I am sure of nothing so little as my own intentions. George Gordon Byron (1788- 1824); English poet.
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quotes[103]="We can learn even from our enemies. Ovid (43BC-17AD); Roman poet.
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quotes[104]="If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favorable to him. Seneca, Lucius Annaeus (5 BC-65 AD); Roman philosopher.
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quotes[105]="Plan the difficult while it is easy. Lao-tse (570 BC - 490 BC); Chinese philosopher.
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quotes[106]="Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered. William Shakespeare (1564-1616); English poet and playwright.
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quotes[107]="As if we could kill time without injuring eternity!. Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862); American writer, poet and essayist.
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quotes[108]="We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like? Jean Cocteau (1889 - 1963); French dramatist, director, & poet.
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quotes[109]="If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. Albert Einstein (1879-1955); physicist and mathematician.
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quotes[110]="The years teach much which the days never knew. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882); US poet and essayist.
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quotes[111]="Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself. Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536); Dutch author, & scholar.
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quotes[112]="Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892); English poet.
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quotes[113]="All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that. Baltasar Gracián (1601-1658); Spanish writer.
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quotes[114]="Words are dwarves, examples are giants. Swiss proverb.
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quotes[115]="Nature has given us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself. Lucius Annaeus Seneca, (5 BC-65AD); Roman philosopher.
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quotes[116]="Under special circumstances, action should be quicker than thought. Hernán Cortés (1485-1547); Spanish conquistador.
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quotes[117]="Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire. Arab proverb.
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quotes[118]="It is easy to be brave from a safe distance, Aesop, (620 BC-560 BC), classical Greek author.
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quotes[119]="We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything. Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931); US inventor and physicist.
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quotes[120]="For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. Aristotle (384-322 BC); Greek philosopher.
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quotes[121]="Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination. Bertrand Russell (1872-1970); English philosopher, mathematician and writer.
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quotes[122]="Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. Henri Bergson (1859-1941); French philosopher.
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quotes[123]="The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing. Jean Toomer (1894 - 1967); US author, poet.
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quotes[124]="The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it. Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD); Greek biographer & moralist.
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quotes[125]="A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. Lao-tsé (570-490 BC.); Chinese philosopher.
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quotes[126]="Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931); US physicist and inventor.
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quotes[127]="Life is a rainbow which also includes black. Yevgeny Yevtushenko (1933-1992); Russian poet.
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quotes[128]="Study the past if you would define the future. Confucius (551-478 BC.); Chinese philosopher.
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quotes[129]="The important thing is not to stop questioning. Albert Einstein (1879-1955), US (German-born) physicist
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quotes[130]="Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week. Will Rogers (1879-1935) US humorist
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quotes[131]="Words are as sunbeams: the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. Robert Southey (1774-1843), British poet.
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quotes[132]="Do not throw the arrow which will return against you. Kurdish proverb
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quotes[133]="The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it. Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), Roman writer
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quotes[134]="Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve. Chinese Proverb
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quotes[135]="Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. Mark Twain (1835-1910) US author
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quotes[136]="Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself. Plutarch (46-120); Greek biographer & moralist.
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quotes[137]="Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894); British author.
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quotes[138]="Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all. Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), British politician
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quotes[139]="A room without books is like a body without a soul. G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) English author & mystery novelist
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quotes[140]="In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968), US black civil rights leader & clergyman
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quotes[141]="I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education. Wilson Mizner (1876 - 1933), US screenwriter
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quotes[142]="Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience. Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827); German composer.
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quotes[143]="All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened. Ernest Hemingway (1889-1961) US novelist.
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quotes[144]="A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Irish dramatist
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quotes[145]="Saying goodbye doesn't mean anything. It's the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it. Trey Parker (1969-) and Matt Stone (1971-), TV scriptwriters
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quotes[146]="It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. William Blake (1757-1827), English engraver, illustrator, & poet
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quotes[147]="The voice of the people is the voice of God. (Vox Populi, Vox Dei) Alcuin (732-804), Anglo-Saxon mathematician
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quotes[148]="We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contests, and you must win. Edward Gibbon (1737-1794), English historian of Rome.
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quotes[149]="A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer. Ralph Waldo Emerson, (1803-1882) US essayist & poet.
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quotes[150]="A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards. Karl Kraus (1874-1936), Austrian author and journalist
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quotes[151]="Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive. G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936), English author
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quotes[152]="History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), French general and politician
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quotes[153]="The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive. John Sladek (1937 - 2000), US author
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quotes[154]="Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable. Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784) English author, critic & lexicographer
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quotes[155]="Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes. Jean de La Fontaine (1621 - 1695) French poet
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quotes[156]="The doors of wisdom are never shut. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790); American statesman and scientist.
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quotes[157]="A man who doesn't trust himself can never truly trust anyone else. Paul de Gondi (1613-1679), Cardinal of Retz, France.
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quotes[158]="Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself. J. K. Rowling (1965), British novelist.
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quotes[159]="The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. Andrew S. Tanenbaum (1944) IT teacher, Vrije University, Netherlands
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quotes[160]="The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have. Louis E. Boone (1941-2005), US academic author.
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quotes[161]="A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969) US general and politician
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quotes[162]="Launch your heart first and your horse will jump the fence. Noel Claraso (1905-1985), Spanish writer.
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quotes[163]="When it's a question of money, everybody follows the same religion. Voltaire (1694-1778), French philosopher and writer.
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quotes[164]="Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless. Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931), US inventor and physicist.
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quotes[165]="When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing. Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), French scientist, philosopher and writer.
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quotes[166]="Talk low, talk slow, and don't talk too much. John Wayne (1907-1979), US movie actor & director.
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quotes[167]="If you don't know where you're going, you will probably end up somewhere else. Laurence J. Peter, 1919-1990), Canadian poet.
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quotes[168]="Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. Samuel Butler (1835-1902), English poet
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quotes[169]="Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity. Hermann Hesse (1877-1962); Swiss writer.
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quotes[170]="The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page. Saint Augustine (354-439), Christian church father, philosopher, bishop.
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quotes[171]="I have very simple tastes, I am always satisfied with the very best. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900); Irish dramatist and novelist.
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quotes[172]="The truth is not always the same as the majority decision. Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), Indian philosopher and writer.
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quotes[173]="Nowadays everybody designs laws, it is easier writing than doing. Leon Tolstoi (1828-1910), Russian writer.
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quotes[174]="Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort. John Ruskin (1819-1900), English writer, critic.
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quotes[175]="Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand. Baruch Benedict Spinoza (1632-1677), Dutch Jewish Philospher.
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quotes[176]="One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. André Gide (1859-1951), French author
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quotes[177]="Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), US scientist and politician.
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quotes[178]="There's no pleasure like meeting an old friend, except, perhaps, making a new one. Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), British novelist.
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quotes[179]="The truth always shines in the end, when everybody has already gone away. Julio Ceron (1928), spanish dimplomat
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quotes[180]="The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant. Baltasar Gracián (1601-1658), Spanish writer.
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quotes[181]="Thought is the parent of the deed. Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), British historian, essayist and philosopher.
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quotes[182]="Ideas? My head is full of them, one after the other, but they serve no purpose there. They must be put down on paper, one after the other. Camilo José Cela, (1916-2002), Spanish writer.
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quotes[183]="It is not who is right, but what is right, that is important. Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895), English biologist.
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quotes[184]="Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity. Hermann Hesse (1877-1962), German-born Swiss writer
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quotes[185]="It is folly for an eminent person to think of escaping censure,and a weakness to be affected by it. Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719) English essayist, poet, & politician.
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