August 2011
59 posts
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“How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many...”
– Shel Silverstein
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“I think if I’ve learned anything about friendship, it’s to hang in,...”
– Jon Katz
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“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”
– Helen Keller
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“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we...”
– Henri J.M. Nouwen (The Road to Daybreak: A Spiritual Journey)
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“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”
– Charles Dickens
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“Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I...”
– Albert Camus
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“Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not...”
– Muhammed Ali
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“Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.”
– Jim Carey
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“Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.”
– Robert Lynd, The Peal of Bells
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“When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good...”
– Al Franken, Oh, the Things I Know!
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“It is a little embarrassing that, after 45 years of research and study, the best...”
– Aldous Huxley
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“When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.”
– Marquis de La Grange
18th century statement
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“Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble.”
– Sydney J. Harris, journalist
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“If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling...”
– Norman Augustine, Augustine’s Laws
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“When your mother asks, “Do you want a piece of advice?” it is a mere...”
– Erma Bombeck
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“Many receive advice; only the wise profit from it.”
– Latin maxim
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“Socrates was a Greek philosopher who went around giving people good advice. They...”
– Anonymous
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“Old people like to give good advice, as consolation for the fact that they can...”
– François de La Rochefoucauld
17th century writer
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“Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we...”
– Erica Jong, How to Save Your Own Life
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“I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what...”
– Harry Truman
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“When things go wrong in your command, start searching for the reason in...”
– Gen. Bruce Clark
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“Let us realize that engagement and detachment aren’t opposite - the more...”
– Deepak Chopra
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“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minute to ruin it. If you think...”
– Warren Buffet
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“Sometimes leadership is planting tress under whose shade you’ll never sit.”
– Gov. Jennifer M. Granholm of Michigan
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“You have to have a vision. It’s got to be a vision you articulate clearly...”
– Rev. Theodore Hesburgh
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“Good leadership requires you to surround yourself with people of diverse...”
– Doris Kearns Goodwin
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“Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you...”
– Margaret Thatcher
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“Inventories can be managed, but people must be led.”
– H. Ross Perot
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“The person who knows “how” will always have a job. The person who...”
– Diane Ravitch
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“It’s hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.”
– Adlai Stevenson
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“Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers.”
– Gen. Colin Powell
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“A teacher affects eternity. He can never tell where his influence stops.”
– Henry Adams
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“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls. The most massive characters...”
– Khalil Gibran
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“Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.
‘Pluck the day, trusting as...”
– Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65 BC – 8 BC)
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“Let each of us examine his thoughts; he will find them wholly concerned with the...”
– Pascal’sPensées
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“Non scholae sed vitae discimus.
We do not learn for school, but for life.”
– Seneca
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“Just because they disagree, doesn’t mean you ain’t right.”
– Toba Beta (Master of Stupidity)
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“Be not content with stories of those who went before you. Go forth and create...”
– Rumi
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“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“I look around at this world you’re so eager to be a part of and all I see...”
– Joss Whedon
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“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are...”
– Marianne Williamson (A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of a Course in Miracles)
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“To have known the truth, one must have fought it out”
– Novalis
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“Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.”
– Albert Einstein
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“Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something...”
– Christopher Morley
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“I wish I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me...”
– Bernard Berenson
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“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
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“Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe,...”
– A. A. Milne
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“When I was 18, I thought my father was the stupidest man in the world. When I...”
– Mark Twain
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“That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the...”
– John Stuart Mill
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“Never be without remembrance of Him For His remembrance gives strength and wings...”
– Rumi 