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We should manage our fortunes as we…

15 Feb , 2011  

We should manage our fortunes as we do our health – enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity. Great short quote and quotation by: Francois de La Rochefoucauld , French author & moralist (1613 – 1680)

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We should often be ashamed of our f…

15 Feb , 2011  

We should often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood our motives. Great short quote and quotation by: Francois de La Rochefoucauld , French author & moralist (1613 – 1680)

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We should take care not to make the…

15 Feb , 2011  

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. Great short quote and quotation by: Albert Einstein , US (German-born) physicist (1879 – 1955)

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We should take care not to make the…

15 Feb , 2011  

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. Great short quote and quotation by: Albert Einstein , US (German-born) physicist (1879 – 1955)

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We should take care not to make the…

15 Feb , 2011  

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. Great short quote and quotation by: Albert Einstein , US (German-born) physicist (1879 – 1955)

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We simply rob ourselves when we mak…

15 Feb , 2011  

We simply rob ourselves when we make presents to the dead. Great short quote and quotation by: Publilius Syrus , (~100 BC)

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We sleep safe in our beds because r…

15 Feb , 2011  

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm. Great short quote and quotation by: George Orwell , English essayist, novelist, & satirist (1903 – 1950)

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We sleep, but the loom of life neve…

15 Feb , 2011  

We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning. Great short quote and quotation by: Henry Ward Beecher , US abolitionist & clergyman (1813 – 1887)

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Rev. Jesse Jackson

We slew the goliath of raciism,but,…

15 Feb , 2011  

We slew the goliath of raciism,but, we now must contend with his offspring. Great short quote and quotation by: Rev. Jesse Jackson ,

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Chazal

We sometimes laugh from ear to ear,…

15 Feb , 2011  

We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes. Great short quote and quotation by: Chazal ,

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James Carroll, O Magazine, October 2002

We spend most of our time and energ…

15 Feb , 2011  

We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of things?[but] there are times when we stop. We sit sill. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or its memory. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper. Great short […]

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John F. Kennedy

We stand for freedom. That is our c…

15 Feb , 2011  

We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others. Great short quote and quotation by: John F. Kennedy , US Democratic politician (1917 – 1963)

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