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He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles. – Walter Scott

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The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt. – Walter Scott

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One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name. – Walter Scott

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Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn. – Walter Scott

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Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know. – Charles Kingsley

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I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best. – Walt Whitman

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The best way to predict the future is to create it. – Peter Drucker

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Outside of a dog, a book is a mans best friend. Inside of a dog its too dark to read. – Groucho Marx

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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. – St. Augustine

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What we remember from childhood we remember forever — permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen. – Cynthia Ozick

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As a child, I had to get up early for school or work. Id get ready by myself. Id set my alarm to wake me up very early in the morning, and be off to work, the family driver driving me every morning. I did it alone, my parents never coming in to wake me up. – Janet Jackson

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Wal-Mart doesnt really care about your faith. Wal-Mart cares if you have money to spend, and it is going to be as generic as possible in exploiting the holiday season for every buck it can make. – Richard Roeper

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