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Love is whatever you can still betray ...
Betrayal can only happen if you love.
John LeCarre

Character is like a tree and
reputation like a shadow.
The shadow is what we think of it;
the tree is the real thing.
Abraham Lincoln

It is surprising what a man can do
when he has to, and how little most men
will do when they don't have to.
Walter Linn

Men are seldom blessed with good fortune
and good sense at the same time.
Titus Livy

There must be a happy medium somewhere between
being totally informed and blissfully unaware.
Doug Larson

Confidence is contagious.
So is lack of confidence.
Vince Lombardi

If we could read the secret history of our enemies,
we would find in each person's life sorrow
and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

That is what learning is. You suddenly
understand something you've understood
all your life, but in a new way.
Doris Lessing

Egotism is the anesthetic that
dulls the pain of stupidity.
Frank Leahy

Having children makes one
no more a parent than having
a piano makes you a pianist.
Michael Levine

Mishaps are like knives, that either
serve us or cut us, as we grasp them
by the blade or by the handle.
James Russell Lowell

There are two insults no human will endure.
The assertion that he has no sense of
humor and the doubly impertinent assertion
that he has never known trouble.
Sinclair Lewis

The art of acceptance is the art of
making someone who has just done
you a small favor wish that he
might have done you a greater one.
J Russel Lynes

Age wrinkles the body.
Quitting wrinkles the soul.
Gen Douglas MacArthur

Money-giving is a very good
criterion of a person?s mental
health. Generous people
are rarely mentally ill people.
Karl A Menninger

Power always protects the good of
some at the expense of all others.
Thomas Merton

Be yourself is about
the worst advice you can
give to some people.
Thomas L Masson

When someone tells you, "I'll think it
over and let you know" -- you know.
Olin Miller

There is no explanation for evil. It
must be looked upon as a necessary part
of the order of the universe. To ignore it
is childish, to bewail it senseless.
W Somerset Maugham

A good leader is a person who takes a
little more than his share of the blame and a
little less than his share of the credit.
John C Maxwell

You're not supposed to be so blind with
patriotism that you can't face reality.
Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.
Malcolm X