“There is far more opportunity than there is ability.”
– Thomas Edison
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Love forever – Euripides
“He is not a lover who does not love forever.”
– Euripides
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Thought forms in the soul – Joseph Joubert
“Thought forms in the soul in the same way clouds form in the air.”
– Joseph Joubert
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Conscience – Harper Lee
“The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.”
– Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)
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Out of focus – Mark Twain
“You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”
– Mark Twain
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Real courage – Harper Lee
“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what. – Atticus Finch”
— Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)
“A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.”
– George Bernard Shaw
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Tyranny – Thomas Jefferson
“All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.”
– Thomas Jefferson
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Success – Woody Allen
“Eighty percent of success is showing up”
– Woody Allen
“Man is his own star; and the soul that can
Render an honest and a perfect man,
Commands all light, all influence, all fate;
Nothing to him falls early or too late.
Our acts our angels are, or good or ill,
Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.”
– Epilogue to Beaumont and Fletcher’s Honest Man’s Fortune
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Lemons – James Martin
“If life gives you lemons, sell lemons. You got them free, so will make a profit without the laborious process of making lemonade.”
– James Martin
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If I agreed – Unknown
“If I agreed with you we’d both be wrong.”
– Unknown
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Voting – Mark Twain
“If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it.”
– Mark Twain
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Archetypal mother – Marcia Muller
“She was the archetypal selfless mother: living only for her children, sheltering them from the consequences of their actions, and in the end doing them irreparable harm.”
– Marcia Muller
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Politics – Groucho Marx
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.”
– Groucho Marx