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I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams… Man… is above all the plaything of his memory.

~ Andre Breton

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Celebrations are the juice of life.

~ John D. Hofbrauer Jr.

Thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break your world by thinking.

~ Susan S. Taylor

Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.

~ Walter Lippmann

In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.

~ Jane Smiley

Men in Great Place are thrice Servants Servants of the Sovereign or State Servants of Fame and Servants of Business It is strange desire to seek Power and to lose Liberty.

~ Francis Bacon

In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.

~ Henry David Thoreau

Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.

~ Hyman Rickover

Constancy in love is a perpetual inconstancy, in which the heart attaches itself successively to each of the lover’s qualities, giving preference now to one, now to another.

~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld

History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. To keep the peace, we and our allies must be strong enough to convince any potential aggressor that war could bring no benefit, only disaster.

~ Norman Schwarzkopf

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