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1st try here:
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| Personal prudence, even when dictated by quite other than selfish considerations, surely is no special virtue in a military man; while an excessive love of glory, impassioning a less burning impulse, the honest sense of duty, is the first. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Billy Budd, Sailor (posthumous), ch 5, eds. Harrison Hayford and Merton M. Sealts, Jr. (1962). ~ |
2nd try here:
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| Great vigilance must be maintained at all times when dealing in areas about which we do not have great understanding. This, of course, is where science can help. We consider things to be mysterious only when we do not understand them. I realize that results of inquiries are dependent on the experiments employed to achieve them. However, not finding something does not mean that it does not exist. It only proves that the experiment was incapable of finding it. It is also important to keep in mind the limitations imposed by nature itself. |
| ~ The Path to Tranquility, October 21, 14th Dalai Lama ~ |
3rd try here:
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| In the long run, we are all dead. |
| ~ John Maynard Keynes ~ |
4th try here:
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| you might be a physics major... ...if you can't remember what's behind the door in the science building which says "Exit." |
| ~ physics humor ~ |
5th try here:
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| The troubles of our proud and angry dust Are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale. |
| ~A. E. Housman (1859-1936) ~ |
6th try here:
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| A man makes no noise over a good deed, but passes on to another as a vine to bear grapes again in season. |
| ~ Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations. v. 6. ~ |
7th try here:
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| Central to the dreams of many is the hope of leaving something of themselves on earth, a contribution or at least a mark on the pages of history. Yet few are as gifted as the Mozarts and Picassos and Shakespeares. Most of us are of a more common clay. |
| ~ in How to Sell 75% of Your Freelance Writing, Gordon Burgett ~ |
8th try here:
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| There is a time for some things, and a time for all things; a time for great things, and a time for small things. |
| ~ Cervantes, Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxxv. ~ |
9th try here:
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| They can expect nothing but their labour for their pains. |
| ~ Cervantes, Don Quixote. The Author's Preface. ~ |
10th try here:
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| Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people’s hats off—then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Moby-Dick (1851), ch. 1, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 6, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1988). ~ |
| Quote of the moment |
| Once I prophesied that this generation of Americans had a rendezvous with destiny. That prophecy now comes true. To us much is given; more is expected. This generation will nobly save or mainly lose the last best hope of earth. The way is plain, peaceful, generous just. A way, which if followed, the world will forever applaud, and God must forever bless. |
| ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945), U.S. president. Ed. Samuel I. Rosenman, The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 13 volumes, New York (1938-1950). FDR Speaks authorized edition of speeches, 1933-1945 (recordings of Franklin Roosevelt’s public addresses), side 5, annual message to Congress (Jan. 4, 1939), ed. Henry Steele Commager, Introduction by Eleanor Roosevelt, Washington Records, Inc. (1960). FDR appeals for national unity in the face of crises at home and abroad. ~ |
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