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"Be like a train; go in the rain, go in the sun, go in the storm, go in the dark tunnels! Be like a train; concentrate on your road and go with no hesitation!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them." »Eugene Paul Wigner
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"The ballot is stronger than the bullet." »Abraham Lincoln
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"Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still" »J. Paul Getty
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"I'm not worried about the bullet with my name on it... just the thousands out there marked 'Occupant.'" »Unknown
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"Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going." »Laurence J. Peter
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"Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up." »Dean Acheson (1893 - 1971)
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"Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet." »Dave Barry
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"Reasons are to an argument as Obstacles are to a bullet The Weak ones get wrecked while the stronger ones force it to change its course!!!!" »Siddharth Astir
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"I think there probably should be a rule that if you're talking about how many loaves of bread a bullet will go through, it's understood that you mean lengthwise loaves. Otherwise, it makes no sense." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it." »Charles Dickens
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"If a trainstation is where the train stops, what's a workstation..." »Anonymous
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"I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train." »Oscar Wilde
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"In the career of glory one gains many things; the gout and medals, a pension and rheumatism....And also frozen feet, an arm or leg the less, a bullet lodged between two bones which the surgeon cannot extract....all of these fatigues experienced in your youth, you pay for when you grow old. Because one has suffered in years gone by, it is necessary to suffer more, which does not seem exactly fair." »Elzear Blaze, La Vie Militaire
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"If you board the wrong train, it's no use running along the corridor in the other direction." »Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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"It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise." »W. Somerset Maugham
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"Anyone who has a child today should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he'll escape." »Wystan Hugh Auden
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"Don't be too optimistic while you are tied to a railway when the train is coming; it won't be helpful for the solution!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"No one is promiscuous in his way of dying. A man who has decided to hang himself will never jump in front of a train." »Amos Bronson Alcott
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"A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by." »Christopher Morley
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"Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him." »Dwight D Eisenhower
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"The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others." »Tryon Edwards
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"The most common of all antagonisms arises from a man's taking a seat beside you on the train, a seat to which he is completely entitled." »Robert Charles Benchley
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"When I interview people, and they give me an immediate answer, they're often not thinking. So I'm silent. I wait. Because they think they have to keep answering. And it's the second train of thought that's the better answer." »Robin Leach
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"*Every man's life is a train made of straw which tries to move on a track made of fire! The very next stop is ashes and dust." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy." »Jean Baptiste Montegut
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"Do not smoke without asking permission or sit so near (as in a train) that the smoke might annoy." »Amy Vanderbilt
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"In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry or idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe." »Lydia Sigourney
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"Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being and only suffering teaches him this." »Simone Weil
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"In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry of idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe." »Mrs. Sigourney
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