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I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.

—Sammy Davis, Jr.

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The best thing about baseball is there's no homework.

—Dan Quisenberry

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Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.

—Christopher Hampton

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There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.

—Alfred Korzybski

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When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others.

—Bertrand Russell

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To be content with little is hard; to be content with much, impossible.

—Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there.

—Laurence J. Peter

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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

—Dwight D. Eisenhower

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True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does.

—Torquato Tasso

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The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.

—Malcolm X

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Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help.

—Alex Haley

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For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

—Virginia Woolf

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The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.

—Thomas Szasz

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The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea.

—Mortimer Adler

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