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An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

The intermediate stage between socialism and capitalism is alcoholism.

Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity.

To Robert Fulton What, sir, would you make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck I pray you excuse me. I have no time to listen to such nonsense.

Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.

Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment.

There'll be bluebirds over the white cliffs of Dover, Tomorrow, just you wait and see.

Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists, when you can ignore them like wise men?

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists, when you can ignore them like wise men

Anything you fully do is an alone journey.

If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.

Anything you fully do is an alone journey.

Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important.

Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important.

At the close of life the question will be not how much have you got, but how much have you given nor how much have you won, but how much have you done not how much have you saved, but how much have you sacrificed how much have you loved and served, not how much were you honored.

Drama is imagination limited by logic. Mathematics is logic limited by imagination.

I only regret that I have one life to lose for my country.

I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.

I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

The teacher's task is not to implant facts but to place the subject to be learned in front of the learner and, through sympathy, emotion, imagination and patience, to awaken in the learner the restless drive for answers and insights which enlarge the personal life and give it meaning.

We live in a time of such rapid change and growth of knowledge that only he who is in a fundamental sense a scholar-that is, a person who continues to learn and inquire-can hope to keep pace, let alone play the role of guide.

The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.

Self-esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.

Self-esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.

Reason and emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle is a struggle between two opposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifests itself in the form of a feeling.

Insanity destroys reason, but not wit.

Insanity destroys reason, but not wit.

Just definitions either prevent or put an end to a dispute.

Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.

I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Just definitions either prevent or put an end to a dispute.

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.

Life is made up of marble and mud.

Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Words -- so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.

Happiness is a butterfly which when pursued is just out of grasp... But if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

The trees reflected in the river -- they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool the truest heroism is, to resist the doubt and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when to be obeyed.

In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel and the remainder of life may be not idly spent in realizing and convincing themselves of the wisdom which they uttered long ago.

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.

What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart What jailer so inexorable as one's self

Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.

Fall not in love, therefore it will stick to your face.

Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

We know what the animals do, what are the needs of the beaver, the bear, the salmon, and other creatures, because long ago men married them and acquired this knowledge from their animal wives. Today the priests say we lie, but we know better.

The Great Spirit, who made all things, made every thing for some use, and whatever use he designed anything for, that use it should always be put to. Now, when he made rum, he said 'Let this be for the Indians to get drunk with,' and it must be so.