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We’re all on the same roller coaster, just in different seats.
JMJason Mechalek
Speed provides the one great modern pleasure.
Aldous Huxley1894–1963
I wake each morning torn between the desire to improve the world and the desire to enjoy it. It makes it hard to plan the day.
E. B. White1899–1985
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blue prints of your ultimate achievements.
Napoleon Hill1883–1970Often credited to Woodrow Wilson
Would people applaud me if I was a good plumber?
Marlon Brando1924–2004
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
William Shakespeare1564–1616All’s Well That Ends Well, Act I, Scene i
Traffic was like a bad dog. It wasn’t important to look both ways when crossing the street; it was important to not show fear.
POP. J. O'Rourke1947–2022All the Trouble in the World (1994)
It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters.
Aesop620–564 BC
Some are weather-wise, some are otherwise.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790Poor Richard (1735)
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
Helen Keller1880–1968
You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Mark Twain1835–1910A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1889), Ch. 43
Whoever despises himself still respects himself as one who despises.
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900Beyond Good and Evil
Boldness be my friend.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Cymbeline, Iachimo, scene vi
I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.
Daniel Webster1782–1852
‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
Thomas Paine1737–1809The American Crisis (1776–1783), The Crisis No. I