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"A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends."---Baltasar Gracian, Spanish philosopher, 1601-1658

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"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood."---Marie Curie, Polish-French physicist & chemist, 1867-1934

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"For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself."---Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish novelist, 1850-1894

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"He who lives without folly is not as wise as he thinks."---Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French maxim writer, 1613-1680

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"In God we trust. All others must bring data."---Bernard Fisher, MD; American breast cancer surgeon & researcher; 1918-2019

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"The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life."---Cyril Connolly, English literary critic, 1903-1974

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"The only really valuable thing is intuition."---Albert Einstein, German-born American theoretical physicist, 1870-1955

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"I plan for the future. I yearn for the past. And, meantime, the present is leaving me fast."---Anonymous

I plan

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"DESTINY, n.: a tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure."---Ambrose Bierce, American journalist, 1842-1914

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"I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I'll be okay."---Maya Angelou, American poet, 1928-2014

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"A truly wise man has an inner joy that is like a fire; it warms the world."---The Dalai Lama, Head of State of Tibet, 1935--

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"Keep high aspirations, moderate expectations, and small needs."---William Howard Stein, American biochemist, 1911-1980

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"Art is I, science is we."---Claude Bernard, French physiologist, 1813-1878

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"Failure changes for the better, success for the worse."---Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca), Roman Stoic philosopher, c.4 BC -- c.65 AD

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"Human love is often but the encounter of two weaknesses."---François Mauriac, Nobel Prize-winning French novelist, 1885-1970

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"We always weaken whatever we exaggerate."---Jean-Françoise de La Harpe, French playwright, 1739-1803

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"For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work."---Doug Larson, American columnist, 1926-2017