When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

Jonathan Swift
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You can observe a lot just by watching.

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Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.

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You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense.

Rick Warren

We had a relationship that lasted 44 years. Herbert and I lived together 10 years before we were married. He always gave me a little heart for whatever anniversary.

Uta Hagen

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

Maya Lin

Friendship is two-sided. It isn't a friend just because someone's doing something nice for you. That's a nice person. There's friendship when you do for each other. It's like marriage - it's two-sided.

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The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind ahead even more than teamwork.

Igor Sikorsky

A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.

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Thanksgiving is a time of togetherness and gratitude.

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Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture.

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It is my belief that no matter how advanced man may become in science, technology, systems, and knowledge, he can never improve on the foundational precepts of marriage as the bedrock of social development.

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Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

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I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.

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In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.

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None so deaf as those that will not hear. None so blind as those that will not see.

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The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

Edward Gibbon

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

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I have always supported measures and principles and not men.

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Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.

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Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.

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Well begun is half done.

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Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, 'It will be happier.'

Alfred Lord Tennyson

In fair weather prepare for foul.

Thomas Fuller

I've had some lovely extraordinary experiences on New Year's Eve.

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