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With love and patience, nothing is impossible.

Daisaku Ikeda, in Success and Failure

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.

Winston Churchill, in Success and Failure

I have learned to use the word "impossible" with the greatest caution.

Werner von Braun, in Success and Failure

Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.

R. I. Fitzhenry, in Wisdom and Ignorance

In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments -- there are consequences.

Robert G. Ingersoll, in Altruism and Cynicism

In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.

Robert Byrne, in Vice and Virtue

Freedom is not the right to live as we please, but the right to find how we ought to live in order to fulfill our potential.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Wisdom and Ignorance

When angry, count to ten before you speak; when very angry, a hundred.

Thomas Jefferson, Writings, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

Samuel Butler, in Altruism and Cynicism

Be braver -- you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

David Lloyd George, in Success and Failure

Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.

Doug Horton, in Success and Failure

Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.

Doug Horton, in Success and Failure

The difference between fiction and reality is that fiction has to make sense.

Tom Clancy, in Art and Literature

Be your own hero, it's cheaper than a movie ticket.

Doug Horton, in Altruism and Cynicism

I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right, shame on you.

Louis Armstrong, in Vice and Virtue

Comedy is tragedy plus time.

Carol Burnett, in Happiness and Misery

Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Wisdom and Ignorance

I wouldn't mind dying -- it's that business of having to stay dead that scares the shit out of me.

R. Geis, in Life and Death

Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Jenny Holzer, in Wisdom and Ignorance

I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

Thomas Jefferson, in Law and Politics