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“You better start swimming or you’ll sink like a stone, for the times they are a’changin’ ”
(Bob Dylan, “The Times They Are A-Changin’)

"And oftentimes excusing of a fault, Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse"
(from King John, William Shakespeare, 1564-1616)

"Rigorous law is often rigorous injustice"
(Terence, 185 – 159 B.C.)

"While men believe in the infinite, some ponds will be thought to be bottomless"
(Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862)

"Be favorable to bold beginnings"
(Virgil, 70-19 B.C.)

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"The sun and the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago…
…had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands"
(Havelock Ellis, 1859-1939)

"Nobody was ever meant, to remember or invent, what he did with every cent"
(from The Hardship of Accounting. Robert Frost)

"It is easy for men to talk one thing and think another"
(Publilius Syrus, circa 42 BC)

"If you destroy a free market, you create a black market.
If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law."
(Winston Churchill, 1931)

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"God gives every bird its food, but he does not throw it into the nest."
(Josiah Gilbert Holland, 1859)

"What is the difference whether you squander all you have, or never use your savings?"
(Horace, 35 B.C.)

"Let Wall Street have a nightmare 
and the whole country has to help get them back in bed again."
(Will Rogers, 1920)

"Men always try to keep women out of business so they won’t find out how much fun it is."
(Vivien Kellens, 1969)

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"Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs;
therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity."
                      (Socrates, 399 B.C.)

"To be a success in business, be daring, be first, be different."
                      (Henry Marchant, 1789)

"Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises."
                     (Demosthenes, C. 343 B.C.)

"Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so."
                    (Bertrand Russell: 1872-1970)

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"Well done is better than well said."
             ( Benjamin Franklin: 1706-1790 )

"Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime,
And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time."
                          [ Henry Longfellow: 1807-1882 ]

"If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?"
       [ Will Rogers: 1879-1935 ]

"Opportunities multiply as they are seized"
 [ Sun Tzu ]

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"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."
[ Alan Kay ]

"Ah, nothing dies but something mourns."
       [ Lord Byron ]

"When you come to a fork in the road, take it."
 [ Yogi Berra ]

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
[ Albert Einstein ]

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"Loss and possession, Death and life are one.
There falls no shadow where there shines no sun."Loss and possession, Death and life are one.
There falls no shadow where there shines no sun."
[ Hilaire Belloc ]

"You can't hit big if you don't own stock.
It's like the lottery, you need a ticket to win."
[ Duck Savage, from The Dead Cat Bounce ]

"History is a cyclic poem written by Time upon the memories of men."
     [ Percy Bysshe Shelley: 1792-1822 ]

"If you don’t know where you are going, any road will take you there."
[ Lewis Carroll, from Alice in Wonderland ]

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"Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend"
 [ Theophrastus: 278 B.C. ]

"Money usually depreciates when it becomes too abundant."
 [ Nicholas Copernicus: 1522 ]

"All things have their uses and their part and proper place
in Nature's economy - and thus all things are lovely."
                  [ Mark Twain, from Roughing It.  1872 ]

"What's to come is still unsure : In delay there lies no plenty."
  [ William Shakespeare - from Twelfth Night: 1608 ]

"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office."
[ Aesop - many years ago, but little has changed ]

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"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; In practice there is."
                                [ Chuck Reid ]

"You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you, 
if you could know how seldom they do."
       [ Olin Miller ]

"Patriotism is your conviction that your country is superior to all other countries
because you were born in it."
       [ George Bernard Shaw ]

"When ideas fail, words come in very handy."
[ Goethe ]

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"I never think of the future - it comes soon enough."
[ Albert Einstein: 1879 -1955 ]

"I appreciate why I come to the mountains: not to conquer them but to immerse myself
in their incomprehensible immensity — so much bigger than us; to better comprehend
humility and patience balanced in harmony, with the desire to push hard;
to share what the hills offer, and to share it in the long-term with good friends
and ultimately with my own sons..."
"I appreciate why I come to the mountains: not to conquer them but to immerse myself
in their incomprehensible immensity — so much bigger than us; to better comprehend
humility and patience balanced in harmony, with the desire to push hard;
to share what the hills offer, and to share it in the long-term with good friends
and ultimately with my own sons..."
[ Alex Lowe, Sunday, October 3, 1999 from Shishapangma, Chinese Tibet ]
Alex died on Shishapangma on October 5.           RIP.

A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining,
but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
[ Mark Twain 1835-1910 ]

"Excess on occasion is exhilarating.
It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit."
[ W. Somerset Maugham ]

"Tradition is what you resort to when you don't have
the time or the money to do it right."






( Kurt Herbert Alder )

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"The reputation of a thousand years
may be determined by the conduct of one hour."
( Japanese proverb )

"It would be wrong not to lay the lessons of the past before the future."
( Winston Churchill : Preface to 'The Second World War')

"Half our life is spent trying to find something to do
with the time we have rushed through life trying to save."
( Will Rogers )

"Man, if you gotta ask you'll never know."
( Louis Armstrong )

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"What we anticipate seldom occurs;
what we least expected generally happens."
( Benjamin Disraeli )

"If it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be;
but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic."
( Lewis Carroll ) "If it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be;
but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic."
( Lewis Carroll )  

"And now abideth faith, hope and charity,
these three, but the greatest of these is charity."
[Corinthians] "And now abideth faith, hope and charity,
these three, but the greatest of these is charity."
[Corinthians] "And now abideth faith, hope and charity,
these three, but the greatest of these is charity."
[Corinthians] "And now abideth faith, hope and charity,
these three, but the greatest of these is charity."
[Corinthians] [Corinthians] 

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious."
[ Albert Einstein ]

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