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  • "Despair is like a cable that is buried just under the surface of the ground. You pull it up and pull it up, but that cable just keeps right on going, clear across a field, until you come to a bunch of guys who are burying the cable. Then just walk up to them and go, 'Hey, have you seen Fred?' And they'll say, 'Fred who?' And you say, 'Fred of snakes?' Then cover your ears, because big laughs are coming."
    By: Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
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  • "I hope that someday we will be able to put away our fears and prejudices and just laugh at people."
    By: Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
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  • "To be able to be caught up into the world of thought -- that is being educated."
    By: Edith Hamilton
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  • "Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists."
    By: Calvin S. Hall
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  • "Inflation continues till common man is completely sucked out of money, then recession sets in and continues till he becomes suckable again."
    By: B. J. Gupta
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  • "Home is the wallpaper above the bed, the family dinner table, the church bells in the morning, the bruised shins of the playground, the small fears that come with dusk, the streets and squares and monuments and shops that constitute one's first universe."
    By: Henry Anatole Grunwald
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  • "Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone."
    By: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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  • "I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House-with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone."
    By: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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  • "The best [an American] can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly and inhospitable mountaintop where few have been before, where few can follow and where few will consent to believe he has been."
    By: George Frost Kennan
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  • "We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities."
    By: Walt(er) Crawford Kelly
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  • "The man who gets the most satisfactory results is not always the man with the most brilliant single mind, but rather the man who can best coordinate the brains and talents of his associates."
    By: Sir William Alton Jones
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  • "It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, That those who will not risk cannot win."
    By: Paul Jones
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  • "No one ever promised that the fastest horse in the race was the easiest one to ride. [on managing talented people]"
    By: Eric J. Joiner, Jr.
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  • "Men do not invent Myths. They only invent fables, and tell lies. True Myths create themselves, and find their expression in the men who serve their purpose."
    By: Denis Johnston
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  • "I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength; our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America."
    By: Lyndon Baines Johnson
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  • "Few things are impossible to diligence and skill ... Great works are performed, not by strength, but perseverence."
    By: Dr. Samuel Johnson
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