Dwight D Eisenhower

When I was a small boy growing up in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing and as we sat there in the warmth of a summer afternoon on a riverbank we talked about what we wanted to do when we grew up. I told him that I wanted to be a real major-league baseball player, a genuine professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he'd like to be President of the United States. Neither of us got our wish.

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Victor Borge

Santa Claus has the right idea; visit people once a year.

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Martin Terman

In the Norse mythology Loki originally was on the side of the rest of the gods, helping them once or twice using a particularly nast forms of trickery. He was a cunning negotiator with a talent for technicalities. He was sort of the Norse equivalent of a lawyer, no doubt the reason they tied him down in a pit dripping acidic venom on him.

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Danish proverb

Children are a poor man's wealth.

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Honore\' de Balzac

He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.

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Cicero

The welfare of the people is the ultimate law.

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Socrates

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

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May Sarton

In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place.

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Donald O. Rickter

Historical reminder Always put Horace before Descartes.

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Edgar Watson Howe

The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.

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Jean Giraudoux

A golf course is the epitome of all that is transitory in the universe, a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible.

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