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February 2005 Quotes

Competition is easier to accept if
you realize it is not an act of oppression
or  abrasion... I've worked with my 
best friends in direct competition.
Diane Sawyer

Love looks through a telescope;
envy, through a microscope.
Henry Wheeler Shaw

From the deepest desires often
come the deadliest hate.
Socrates

Everything you add to the truth
subtracts from the truth.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn

If you would be pungent, be brief;
for it is with words as with sunbeams --
the more they are
condensed, the deeper they burn.
Robert Southey

Education is a weapon, whose
effect depends on who holds it in his
hands and at whom it is aimed.
Joseph Stalin

Most games are lost, not won.
Casey Stengel

Age seldom arrives smoothly
or quickly. It's more often
a succession of jerks.
Jean Rhys

I believe that every right
implies a responsibility;
every opportunity, an obligation;
every possession, a duty.
John D Rockefeller

Over every mountain there
is a path, although it may not
be seen from the valley.
Theodore Roethke

I'd walk through hell in a
gasoline suit to play baseball.
Pete Rose



Courage is not the absence of fear,
but rather the judgment that something
else is more important than fear.
Ambrose Redmoon

It is never wise to seek or wish for
another's misfortune. If malice or envy
were tangible and had a shape, it
would be the shape of a boomerang.
Charley Reese

It doesn't take a genius to spot
a goat in a flock of sheep.
Will Rogers

The walls we build around
us to keep sadness out
also keeps out the joy.
Jim Rohn

The thing you have to be prepared
for is that other people don't
always dream your dream.
Linda Ronstadt

I've learned.... that being kind is
more important than being right.
Andy Rooney

We gain strength, and courage, and
confidence by each experience in which we
really stop to look fear in the face ... we
must do that which we think we cannot.
Eleanor Roosevelt

There are enough people in the
world to give you a hard time.
A friend is someone who gives
unconditional support.
J K Rowling

The whole problem with the world
is that fools and fanatics are always
so certain of themselves,
but wiser people so full of doubts.
Bertrand Russell

It is of interest to note that while
some dolphins are reported to
have learned English -- up to 50
words used in correct context --
no human being has been reported
to have learned dolphinese.
Carl Sagan

There is only one happiness in
life, to love and be loved.
George Sand

Time is the coin of your life. It is the
only coin you have, and only you
can determine how it will be spent.
Be careful lest you let
other people spend it for you.
Carl Sandberg

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.
George Santayana

Competition brings out the best in
products and the worst in people.
David Sarnoff

Most people are willing 
to pay more to be amused 
than to be educated.
Robert C Savage