Who said:A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

10 07 2007

L. M. Montgomery

Sir Thomas Browne

Saul Bellow

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Richard Jefferies

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Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love.
George Santayana
Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work.
Robert Orben
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
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No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
People in their handling of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.
Lao Tzu

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A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.
Samuel Johnson
The grave is the general meeting place.
Thomas Fuller
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
Leigh Hunt
Our experience is composed rathery of illusions that of wisdom acquired.
Joseph Roux
That’s the secret to life… replace one worry with another….
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Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
Warren Bennis
Ah, Hope what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of to-day, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.
Susanna Moodie
There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.
John F. Kennedy
If you’re a cowboy, and you’re dragging a guy behind your horse, I bet it would really make you mad if you looked back and the guy was reading a magazine.
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Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to ‘jump at de sun.’ We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
Zora Neale Hurston

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It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.
George Gordon Byron
While there’s life, there’s hope.
Terence
Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.
H. Jackson Browne
Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety.
William Shakespeare
Dedication and responsibility, Far beyond the laws governed by man, Releases the power within you, To attain all the wisdom of the universe.
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Let’s drink to the spirit of gallantry and courage that made a strange Heaven out of unbelievable Hell, and let’s drink to the hope that one day this country of ours, which we love so much, will find dignity and greatness and peace again.
Davis fouls out to third in fair territory.
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I love criticism just so long as it’s unqualified praise.