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Every one should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he

Every one should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he grows the more things he will consign to it — torn up to irrecoverable tatters. – Samuel Butler

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An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books. – Samuel Butler

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All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. – Samuel Butler

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The only way you may correct the bad things in your past is to add better things to your future. – Shiloh Morrison

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Think of your faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep. – Chinese Proverb

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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it. РAntoine de Saint-Exup̩ry, Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939, translated from French by

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Mind your own business. But love your neighbor as yourself. – David C. Hill, ***Dave Does the Blog (hill-kleerup.org/blog)

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Drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope – and when we fight against drugs we are fighting for the future. – Bob Riley

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When Fortune smiles, I smile to think how quickly she will frown. – Robert Southwell

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The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant. – Maximilien Robespierre

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Human beings, for all their pretensions, have a remarkable propensity for lending themselves to classification somewhere within neatly labeled categories. Even the outrageous exceptions may be classified as outrageous exceptions! – W.J. Reichmann

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