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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

Bertrand Russell

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

Emerson

Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Robert Frost

Patience is counting down without blasting off.

You have to decide at the end of the day if you can live with yourself.

Princess Anne

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.

Poetry is made out of our quarrel with ourselves.

William Butler Yeats

But the fruit that can fall without shaking,

Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who can not, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live.

Peter Cochrane

Many candles can be kindled from one candle without diminishing it.

The Midrash

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

Admiral Hyman Rickover

You won't be happy with more until you're happy with what you've got.

Viki King

Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

Spinoza

You won't be happy with more until you're happy with what you've got.

Viki King

When you make your mark in the world, watch out for guys with erasers.

When things go wrong - don't go wrong with them.

Thesaurus: n. ancient reptile with large vocabulary.

Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes.

Mickey Mouse

The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters.

Ross MacDonald

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

Bertrand Russell

Thesaurus: n. ancient reptile with large vocabulary.

The only thing one can do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.

Oscar Wilde

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