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"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."
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My all-time favorite is known as the "Man in the Arena" speech given by Teddy Roosevelt in 1910:

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."
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"Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit"
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I would never want to belong to a group that would have me as a member.
Poor quote of Groucho.
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Resentment is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die. Source unknown. 8)
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"Hunger is the best pickle"

-Ben Franklin
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john elder wrote:"Hunger is the best pickle"

-Ben Franklin
Hmmm, for decades I thought the saying used the word "seasoning". I was wrong. Apparently, in his day pickles (and other strongly seasoned foods) would be added to bland table fare in order to increase palatability, as there sometimes wasn't much variety in what was available. I imagine this was more often a winter phenomenon. We're spoiled. And lucky :)
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"If it sounds too good to be true, it's probably not true." I don't know who said it, but it's definitely good advice that's been proven over and over again.
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Theodore Roosevelt’s ideas on Immigrants and being an AMERICAN in 1907.

“In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person’s becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American … There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag … We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language … and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.”

Theodore Roosevelt 1907
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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart. Helen Keller


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"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”

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"What could go wrong?"

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This belonged to my dear old granma who passed away when she was 90-something years old. Went to my wife, then to our daughter. I've always found these words calming and encouraging. Best--- Joe Walkowski

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Make sure that when you argue with a fool, that he's not doing the same. Unknown Author.

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A couple unattributed ones that fit well with my latest obsession:

-"The more I fix it, the broker it gets"
-"Why do we never have the time to do it right, but always have the time to do it over?"
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One of my favorites from my working days, when no matter how hard you tried to convince your superiors that you had a great idea and they just wouldn't buy it:

"When the horse is dead, dismount!"

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Opportunity is missed by most people, because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

What others think of you isn't really any of your business.

Time heals almost everything. Give Time some time.

Don't compare yourself to others as you have no idea what their life is all about.

Smile, because you do NOT own all of the world's problems.

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"Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple" Dr. Seuss
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“That which does not kill us, makes us stronger.” Friedrich Nietzsche.

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