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"All money systems not backed by actual resources has failed in the past, if we keep eating the same food and making the same political choices as we have always done, we are also doomed to inherit a legacy of failure and misfortune". – R. F Knight
"The pursuit of happiness" is an American myth. The ideologies and governments of this century that promised happiness, have left people with more material possessions, but less psychological well-being. Many of the citizens are emotionally bankrupt and unhappy. The demands of life in our current socioeconomic system require that we keep running and running with little or no breaks....Like their parents, most of the young professionals will drift through life racing for the "American Dream", going through very expensive trial-and-error lessons and struggling to achieve happiness and fulfillment. – Med Jones
A few broken bones won't matter; you are not made of bones but of your will power, wisdom and willingness to keep fighting. – Rahul Katragadda
A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful in itself. He breaks his engagements, leaves his letters unanswered, neglects his family duties incorrigibly, because he is powerless to turn his attention down and back from those more interesting trains of imagery with which his genius constantly occupies his mind. – William James
A man that should call everything by its right name, would hardly pass the streets without being knocked down as a common enemy. – Lord Halifax
A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest. – Pearl Bailey
Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there. – John Wooden
Ace The town will never be the same. After the Tangiers, the big corporations took it all over. Today it looks like Disneyland. And while the kids play cardboard pirates, Mommy and Daddy drop the house payments and Junior's college money on the poker slots. In the old days, dealers knew your name, what you drank, what you played. Today, it's like checkin' into an airport. And if you order room service, you're lucky if you get it by Thursday. Today, it's all gone. You get a whale show up with four million in a suitcase, and some twenty-five-year-old hotel school kid is gonna want his Social Security Number. After the Teamsters got knocked out of the box, the corporations tore down practically every one of the old casinos. And where did the money come from to rebuild the pyramids Junk bonds. But in the end, I wound up right back where I started. I could still pick winners, and I could still make money for all kinds of people back home. And why mess up a good thing – Casino
Always keep left for a safe ride, because passionate bikers will be always right. – Thennarasu
Any woman who has a career and a family automatically develops something in the way of two personalities, like two sides of a dollar bill, each different in design. ... Her problem is to keep one from draining the life from the other. – Ivy Baker Priest
Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter. – Paxton Hood
Better keep yourself clean and bright you are the window through which you must see the world. – George Bernard Shaw
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. – George Bernard Shaw
Business is like riding a bicycle. Either you keep moving or you fall down. – Frank Lloyd Wright
Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on schedule. The key is to keep working the engines. – Gary Sinise
Class has a sense of humor. It knows that a good laugh is the best lubricant for oiling the machinery of human relations. Class never makes excuses. It takes its lumps and learns from past mistakes. Class bespeaks an aristocracy unrelated to ancestors or money. Some extremely wealthy people have no class at all, while others who are struggling to make ends meet are loaded with it. Class is real. You can't fake it. Class never tries to build itself up by tearing others down. Class is already up and need not attempt to look better by making others look worse. Everyone is comfortable with the person who has class because he is comfortable with himself. If you have class, you've got it made. If you don't have class, no matter what else you have, it won't make up for it. – Ann Landers
Comtemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen and then ask yourself, What should be the reward of such sacrifices... If ye love wealth better than freedom, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands that feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen. – Samuel Adams
Debts are the modern day chains that keep us enslaved. – William Lander
Do good to thy Friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him. – Benjamin Franklin
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up. – G. K. Chesterton
Don't let people's words bring you down – Daniela Dendal
Don't let the bastards grind you down. – Gen. Joseph Stilwell
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats. – Howard Aiken
Falling Doesn't Make You a Failure, Staying Down Does. – God's Little Instruction Book
Fear can keep us up all night long, but faith makes one fine pillow. – Philip Gulley

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