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« Reply #240 on: May 11, 2006, 08:00:17 PM »
A man without decision of character can never be said to belong to himself. He belongs to whatever can make captive of him.

John Foster

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« Reply #241 on: May 11, 2006, 09:06:28 PM »
Nothing shows a man's character more than what
he laughs at

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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« Reply #242 on: May 12, 2006, 05:24:01 PM »
You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.

Abraham Lincoln

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« Reply #243 on: May 12, 2006, 07:13:30 PM »
Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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« Reply #244 on: May 13, 2006, 12:57:52 PM »
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Thomas A. Edison


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Re: Famous (and not so famous) quotes
« Reply #245 on: May 18, 2006, 04:27:03 PM »
Few great men would have gotten past Personnel.

Paul Goodman

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« Reply #246 on: June 06, 2006, 04:25:41 PM »
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.

Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943

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« Reply #247 on: June 06, 2006, 07:48:15 PM »
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Orville Wright

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Re: Famous (and not so famous) quotes
« Reply #248 on: June 17, 2006, 09:28:38 PM »
If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.

Erma Bombeck

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« Reply #249 on: June 30, 2006, 04:03:45 PM »
Time wounds all heels.

Groucho Marx

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« Reply #250 on: July 26, 2006, 03:30:19 PM »
"Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so?

There's a support group for that.

It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar."

Drew Carey

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Re: Famous (and not so famous) quotes
« Reply #251 on: September 07, 2006, 05:51:37 PM »
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

Robert Frost

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« Reply #252 on: September 09, 2006, 08:03:15 AM »
The quote board lives *l


If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.

Paul Beatty

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Re: Famous (and not so famous) quotes
« Reply #253 on: September 09, 2006, 06:21:16 PM »
 ;) it lives

The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.

Ambrose Bierce

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Re: Famous (and not so famous) quotes
« Reply #254 on: September 10, 2006, 05:23:49 PM »
A liar should have a good memory.

Quintilian