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Dare to be naive.
- Buckminster Fuller
Human beings are the only creatures on the planet
who tell time and think they have to earn a living.
- Buckminster Fuller
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy 
With courage, you will dare to take risks,
have the strength to be compassionate,
and the wisdom to be humble.
Courage is the foundation of integrity.
- Keshavan Nair
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This is no time for ease and comfort.
It is time to dare and endure.
- Winston Churchill
We must dare to think "unthinkable" thoughts.
- J. W. Fulbright
It is not because life is difficult
that we do not dare.
Life is difficult
because we do not dare.
- Seneca
Dare to dream of your great success.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Take a chance! All life is a chance.
The man who goes farthest is generally
the one who is willing to do and dare.
- Dale Carnegie
To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily.
Not to dare is to lose oneself.
- Soren Kierkegaard
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
Let's have faith that right makes might;
and in that faith let us, to the end,
dare to do our duty as we understand it.
- Abraham Lincoln
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
If you think you are beaten, you are.
If you think you dare not, you don't.
If you'd like to win, but think you can't
It's almost a cinch you won't.
Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man;
But soon or late the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.
- Anonymous
Far better is it to dare mighty things,
to win glorious triumphs,
even though chequered by failure,
than to take rank with those poor spirits
who neither enjoy much nor suffer much,
because they live in the grey twilight
that knows not victory or defeat.
- Theodore Roosevelt
I hope we shall crush in its birth
the aristocracy of our monied corporations
which dare already to challenge our government
to a trial by strength,
and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
- Thomas Jefferson (from a letter to George Logan, Nov. 12th, 1816)
Here in America we are descended in blood
and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels.
Men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine.
As their heirs, may we never confuse
honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I, with a deeper instinct,
choose a man who compels my strength,
who makes enormous demands on me,
who does not doubt my courage or my toughness,
who does not believe me naive or innocent,
who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
- Anais Nin
If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you always got.
- Mark Twain
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
- Mark Twain (attributed)
"It's not that important,
don't worry about it" is the answer,
now what was the question?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
Well, you ask a silly question, and you get a silly answer.
- Tom Lehrer
You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.
- Anonymous
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation
and go to the grave with the song still in them.
- Henry David Thoreau
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool,
than to speak and remove all doubt.
- sometimes attributed to Mark Twain, Abraham Lincoln, or Samuel Johnson
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
You can observe a lot by just watching.
- Yogi Berra
The universe we observe has precisely
the properties we should expect
if there is, at bottom, no design,
no purpose, no evil, no good,
nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
- Charles Darwin
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
The urge to save humanity is almost always
a false front for the urge to rule.
- H. L. Mencken
Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung
How many legs does a dog have
if you call the tail a leg? Four.
Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
- Abraham Lincoln
The way I see it, it doesn't matter what you believe,
just so you're sincere.
- Linus Van Pelt in Charles M. Schulz' Go Fly A Kite, Charlie Brown
Children, cartoon animals, comedians,
and space aliens can get away with saying
what the rest of us are afraid is true,
but are embarrassed to talk about.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is defined more by its contrasts than its samenesses;
Life is defined more by its risks than the many securities.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
There is only one thing about which I am certain,
and that is that there is very little
about which one can be certain.
- W. Somerset Maugham
Just once in a while, let us exalt
the importance of ideas and information.
- Edward R. Murrow
Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
Society is always taken by surprise
at any new example of common sense.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
- Charles M. Schulz in his Peanuts cartoon
All people know the same truth.
Our lives consist of how we chose to distort it.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
Money won't make you happy...
but everybody wants to find out for themselves.
- Zig Ziglar
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
- Walter Bagehot
What would be the use of immortality to a person
who cannot use well a half an hour.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
The more he became truly wise,
the more he distrusted everything he knew.
- Voltaire
I can't go back to yesterday -
because I was a different person then.
- Lewis Carroll
"But I don't want to go among mad people," said Alice.
"Oh, you can't help that," said the cat. "We're all mad here."
- Lewis Carroll
Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.
- Confucius
When all think alike, no one is thinking very much.
- Walter Lippmann
Everybody is a genius.
But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree,
it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
- Albert Einstein
The end of the human race will be that
it will eventually die of civilization.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt
The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
- John Muir
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked,
in which you can walk with love and reverence.
- Henry David Thoreau
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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