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Don’t let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn’t go with it.

- Colin Powell

To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks.

- Irving R. Kaufman

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.

- Erich Fromm

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.

- Theodor Geisel

A soft refusal is not always taken, but a rude one is immediately believed.

- Alexander Chase

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.

- Max Eastman

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

- John Muir

Good heavens, of what uncostly material is our earthly happiness composed… if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower, and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons.

- James Russell Lowell

When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.

- Sacha Guitry

The facts of the present won’t sit still for a portrait. They are constantly vibrating, full of clutter and confusion.

- Macneile Dixon