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Quote by Samuel Johnson
Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them. – Samuel Johnson

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Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other. – Samuel Johnson

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Samuel Johnson
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Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you most. – Samuel Johnson

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When I was 20, I thought I was 30 – but I was so far from it. When youre young, you want everything to happen now. As you mature, you can look back and see all the great things you achieved with time and patience. – Elisha Cuthbert

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He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man. – Mencius

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A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed. – Ansel Adams

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From the world wars of Europe to the jungles of the Far East, from the deserts of the Middle East to the African continent, and even here in our own hemisphere, our veterans have made the world a better place and America the great country we are today. – John Hoeven

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I dont believe war is a way to solve problems. I think its wrong. I dont have respect for the people that made the decisions to go on with war. I dont have that much respect for Bush. Hes about war, Im not about war – a lot of people arent about war. – Avril Lavigne

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