• Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
  -- Chinese Proverb

• Character is what you do and how you act when no one is watching.

• Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many.
  -- Anonymous

• Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
  -- Bertolt Brecht

• Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time; for that's the stuff life is made of
  -- Benjamin Franklin

• Genius is one percent inspiration, and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
  -- Thomas Alva Edison

• Government is not reason. Government is not eloquence. It is force. And, like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
  -- George Washington

• I am not afraid of dying; what I am afraid of is wasting the time I am here.

• I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
  -- Galileo Galilei

• I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
  -- Thomas Jefferson

• If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.
  -- Benjamin Franklin

• If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
  -- Tryon Edwards

• In the country of the blind, a one-eyed man is king.

• It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
  -- Franklin D. Roosevelt

• It is not best that we should all think alike; it is differences of opinion that make horse races.
  -- Mark Twain

• It takes two to speak truth - One to speak, and another to hear.
  --Henry David Thoreau

• Luck is when preparation meets opportunity.
  -- Novack

• More have repented speech than silence.

• One must be able to manage himself, before he can manage others.
  -- Anonymous

• The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
  -- Alan Kay

• The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work.
  -- Anonymous

• The true measure of a man is what he does when he encounters work he finds unpleasant.
  

• Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account.
  -- Benjamin Franklin

• Those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it.
  

• We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again, and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.
  -- Mark Twain

• Whether you believe you can, or whether you believe you can't, you're absolutely right.
  -- Henry Ford.

• You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
  -- Mahatma Gandhi

• if only more people realised that to be competitors doesn't mean that one has to do everything within one's power to destroy each other...
  -- Ratface

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