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Anonymous British civil servant, "Take Her Deep" by I.J. Galatin, Cdr., US Navy, ret. · Jim Whitaker · John M. Capozzi, Why Climb the Corporate Ladder When You Can Take the Elevator? · Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken · The Road Not Taken · Whittaker Chambers · Whittaker Chambers, from Witness (1952)

Think 100 times before you take a decision, But once that decision is taken, stand by it as one man. – Muhammad Ali Jinnah
A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to want to take it off you. – Franoise Sagan
A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the faade of his appearance. – Jean Iris Murdoch
A person has three choices in life. You can swim against the tide and get exhausted, or you can tread water and let the tide sweep you away, or you can swim with the tide, and let it take you where it wants you to go. – Andrew Schneider
A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring. – La Rochefoucauld
All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words Ich bin ein Berliner – John Fitzgerald Kennedy
An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously. – Charles F. Kettering
And whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million years, I can cheefully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness I can wait... And as to you, Life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths, (No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.) – Walt Whitman
Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide. – Buddha
Beware how you take away hope from another human being. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned So he that goeth in to his neighbor's wife whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent. – Proverbs 627-9 Bible Hebrew
Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on schedule. The key is to keep working the engines. – Gary Sinise
Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains. – Helen Gahagan Douglas
Control thy passions, lest they take vengeance on thee. – Epictetus
Cowardice asks the question - is it safe? Vanity asks the question - is it popular? Expediency asks the question - is it political? But conscience asks the question - is it right? There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, popular, or political; but because it is right. – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Crazy people who are productive are geniuses. Crazy people who are rich are eccentric. Crazy people who are neither productive nor rich are just plain crazy. Geniuses and crazy people are both out in the middle of a deep ocean geniuses swim, crazy people drown. Most of us are sitting safely on the shore. Take a chance and get your feet wet. – Michael J. Gelb
Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps. – David Lloyd George
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up. – G. K. Chesterton
Don't forget to take life one day at a time because if you miss a day or two it's called being in a coma. – Tom Zegan
Each decision we make, each action we take, is born out of an intention. – Sharon Salzberg
Education and knowledge are the only asset that you can not loose and no one can take it away from you (From the wisdom of my late grandmother Zahra Belfkih) – Abderrahman Hassi
Education and knowledge is the only asset that you can not loose and no one can take it away from you (From the wisdom of my father Mustapha). – Abderrahman Hassi
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat. – Theodore Roosevelt
For example, in Year 1 that useless letter "c" would be dropped to be replased either by "k" or "s", and likewise "x" would no longer be part of the alphabet. The only kase in which "c" would be retained would be the "ch" formation, which will be dealt with later. Year 2 might reform "w" spelling, so that "which" and "one" would take the same konsonant, wile Year 3 might well abolish "y" replasing it with "i" and Iear 4 might fiks the "g j" anomali wonse and for all. Jenerally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear with Iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and Iears 6-12 or so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeining voist and unvoist konsonants. Bai Iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi ridandant letez "c", "y" and "x" -- bai now jast a memori in the maindz ov ould doderez -- tu riplais "ch", "sh", and "th" rispektivli. Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld. – Mark Twain, "A Plan for the Improvement of English Spelling"
For this is Wisdom to love, to live To take what fate, or the Gods may give. To ask no question, to make no prayer, To kiss the lips and caress the hair, Speed passion's ebb as you greet its flow To have, - to hold - and - in time, - let go – Laurence Hope

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