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No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude. ~Author Unknown



Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. ~Mark Twain



Every true history must force us to remember that the past was once as real as the present and as uncertain as the future. ~George Macaulay Trevelyan, Clio, A Muse



I never had a man come to me for advice yet, but what I soon discovered that he thought more of his own opinion than he did of mine. ~Josh Billings



In America, with all its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we do not know yet whether the sun is rising or setting for our country. ~Dick Gregory, 1964



Any American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up. ~Bill Vaughn



There is always death and taxes; however, death doesn't get worse every year. ~Author Unknown



A book that is shut is but a block. ~Thomas Fuller



If Jesus Christ were to come today people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he has to say, and make fun of it. ~Thomas Carlyle



It's okay to figure out murder mysteries, but you shouldn't need to figure out code. You should be able to read it. ~Steve McConnell



Reality leaves a lot to the imagination. ~John Lennon



I remembered a story of how Bach was approached by a young admirer one day and asked, "But Papa Bach, how do you manage to think of all these new tunes?" "My dear fellow," Bach is said to have answered, according to my version, "I have no need to think of them. I have the greatest difficulty not to step on them when I get out of bed in the morning and start moving around my room." ~Laurens Van der Post



Either way, things are a lot better - either a lot better than they were or a lot better than they're going to be. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime. ~Mark Twain



I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is fourteen days. ~Totie Fields



Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams



Dark clouds may hang on me sometimes, but I'll work it out... ~Dave Matthews, "Dancing Nancies"



If the mind, that rules the body, ever so far forgets itself as to trample on its slave, the slave is never generous enough to forgive the injury, but will rise and smite the oppressor. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow



I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her. ~Ellen DeGeneres



Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns. ~George Eliot