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All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

George Eliot

Money is a good thing and it's obviously useful, but to work only for money or fame would never interest me.

Annie Lennox

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance or insignificance can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the last generation.

Abraham Lincoln, Second Annual M

What need I fear of thee? But yet I'll make assurance double sure, and take a bond of fate: thou shalt not live; That I may tell pale-hearted fear it lies, And sleep in spite of thunder

William Shakespeare

It is a challenge, with the global fame, to try to act like I put my pants on one leg at a time, when in fact I have Pippa Middleton help me put my pants on every morning. She's my lady-in-waiting as well.

Kathy Griffin

Here is the simple but powerful rule... always give people more than they expect to get.

Nelson Boswell

My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason.

Norman Cousins

It is necessary to relax your muscles when you can. Relaxing your brain is fatal.

Stirling Moss

We think that it is the best scientists working in the frontier fields of science who are best able to judge what is good and what is bad - if any - in the application of their scientific research.

Kenichi Fukui

People rise to the occasion without hesitation when they feel inspired and challenged.

Lorii Myers

Every memorable act in the history of the world is a triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it because it gives any challenge or any occupation a new meaning, no matter how frightening or difficult. Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity but with it you can accomplish miracles.

Og Mandino

Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.

Ibrahim Babangida