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Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof. ~Martin H. Fischer



Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. ~Oscar Wilde



The outward man is the swinging door; the inner man is the still hinge. ~Eckhart



There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward. ~John Mortimer



Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions. ~Norbert Wiener, The Human Use of Human Beings, 1950



There are an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job. ~Peter Drucker



Most people's religion is what they want to believe, not what they do believe. ~Luther Burbank, Why I Am an Infidel



To be a genuine individualist requires a great deal of strength and courage. It is never easy to chart new territory, to cross new frontiers, or to introduce subtle shadings to an established color. ~Toller Cranston



We cannot blame the schools alone for the dismal decline in SAT verbal scores. When our kids come home from school do they pick up a book or do they sit glued to the tube, watching music videos? Parents, don't make the mistake of thinking your kid only learns between 9:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. ~George Bush



Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route. ~Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld



A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend. ~Emily Dickinson



Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression. ~Bronson Alcott



I don't know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future. ~Ralph Abernathy



Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. ~Oscar Wilde



The last Christian died on the cross. ~Friedrich Nietzsche



If you're attacking, you don't get as tired as when you're chasing. ~Kyle Rote, Jr.



There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. ~Nelson Mandela



There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart. ~Celia Thaxter



God speaks in the silence of the heart. Listening is the beginning of prayer. ~Mother Teresa



The pause is as important as the note. ~Truman Fisher