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Some people hear their own inner voices

Posted on June 5, 2012June 5, 2007 by admin

“Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy… or they become legend.”

— Jim Harrison

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No employer today is independent of those

Posted on June 2, 2012June 2, 2007 by admin

“No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.”

— Orison Swett Marden

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Great occasions do not make heroes or

Posted on May 29, 2012May 29, 2007 by admin

“Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and at last some crisis shows what we have become.”

— Brooke Foss Westcott

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To want friendship is a great fault.

Posted on May 24, 2012May 24, 2007 by admin

“To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.”

— Simone Weil

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The water in a vessel is sparkling;

Posted on May 20, 2012May 20, 2007 by admin

“The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

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All the great things are simple, and

Posted on May 19, 2012May 19, 2007 by admin

“All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.”

— Winston Churchill

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The sound of a kiss is not

Posted on May 16, 2012May 16, 2007 by admin

“The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.”

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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There is no despair so absolute as

Posted on May 16, 2012May 16, 2007 by admin

“There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.”

— George Eliot

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