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Eloquence is vehement simplicity. - Richard Cecil

Eloquence is vehement simplicity. – Richard Cecil

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If I have made an appointment with you, I owe you punctuality, I have no right to throw away your time, if I do my own. – Richard Cecil

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Punctuality
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Richard Cecil
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Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false. – Richard Cecil

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Beauty
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Richard Cecil
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Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes. – Richard Cecil

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Wisdom
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Richard Cecil
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Other Quotes from
Miscellaneous
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Please be patient. God has not finished with me yet. – Author Unknown

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Miscellaneous

The professional military mind is by necessity an inferior and unimaginative mind; no man of high intellectual quality would willingly imprison his gifts in such a calling. – H.G. Wells, The Outline of History, 1920

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Miscellaneous

A society that gives to one class all the opportunities for leisure, and to another all the burdens of work, dooms both classes to spiritual sterility. – Lewis Mumford

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Miscellaneous

There are times when forgetting can be just as important as remembering — and even more difficult. – Harry and Joan Mier, Happiness Begins Before Breakfast

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Miscellaneous

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The U.S. army confirmed that it gave a lucrative fire fighting contract in Iraq to the firm once run by the Vice President Dick Cheney without any competitive bidding. When asked if this could be conceived as Cheneys friends profiting from the war, the spokesman said Yes. – Conan OBrien

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This is a matter of public health. The public was sick and tired of DeLay and his corruption. – Jim Hightower

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The most essential thing for us was to get the business model right, then put the world-class technology under it to support it. At Merrill, that meant not doing what people expected. – John McKinley

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