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Welfare Quotations Online - Random Mix - 21
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Wilson Mizner
God help those who do not help themselves.
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Cicero
Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.
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Lewis Thomas
Statistically the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you would think the mere possibility of existence would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise.
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Elizabeth Clarkson Zwart
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
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Stephen William Hawking
It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.
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Jeremy Rifkin
The modern age has been characterized by a Promethean spirit, a restless energy that preys on speed records and shortcuts, unmindful of the past, uncaring of the future, existing only for the moment and the quick fix. The earthly rhythms that characterize a more pastoral way of life have been shunted aside to make room for the fast track of an urbanized existence. Lost in a sea of perpetual technological transition, modern man and woman find themselves increasingly alienated from the ecological choreography of the planet.
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Samuel Johnson
A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.
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Father Andrew SDC
When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, an Indian said simply, Ours.
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Henry de Bracton, De Legibus in 1240
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
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Jesse Louis Jackson
America is not like a blanket-one piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture, the same size. America is more like a quilt-many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven and held together by a common thread.
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Thich Nhat Hanh
People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.
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