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Quotes
December 2011
November 2011
October 2011
"The
weak can never forgive.
Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong!"
Attrib:
- Gandhi
September 2011
"A
young man who does not have what it takes to perform military
service
is not ikely to have what it takes to make a living.
Today's military rejects include tomorrow's hard-core unemployed."
Attrib:
- John F. Kennedy
August 2011
"Freedom
is the only thing worth living for.
While I was doing that work, I used to think it didn't matter if I died,
because without freedom there was no point in living."
Nancy Wake once said of her wartime exploits, as a
saboteur during WWII
Attrib:
- Nancy Wake
July 2011
"Silence
does not always mark wisdom!
Attrib:
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
By associating with wise people
you will become wise yourself"
Attrib:
- Menander
June 2011
"Success
is not final, Failure is not fatal:
it is the courage to continue that counts."
Attrib:
- Winston Churhill
May 2011
"If
God forbade drinking, would he have made wine so good?"
Attrib:
- Cardinal Richelieu
April 2011
"Storms
make oaks take deeper root."
Attrib:
- George Herbert
(1593 - 1633)
March 2011
"Success
is the good fortune
that comes from aspiration,
desperation, perspiration
and inspiration.
Attrib:
- Evan Esar
February 2011
"To
reach a port, we must sail;
Sail, not tie at anchor;
Sail, not drift."
Attrib:
- Franklin Roosevelt
January 2011
"For
as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he!"
Attrib:
- Proverbs 2 3:7
December 2010
"Our
lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter"
Attrib:
- Martin Luther King
November 2010
"Every
artist was first an amateur."
Attrib:
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
October 2010
"Every
man, as to character,
is the creature of the age in which he lives.
Very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the times."
Attrib:
- Voltaire
September 2010
"It
is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself.
(Absurdum est ut alios regat, qui seipsum regere nescit)"
Attrib:
- Latin Proverb
August 2010
"Try
not to become a man of success but a man of Value."
Attrib:
Albert
Einstein
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July 2010
"After
the game, the King and the Pawn go into the same Box.
Attrib:
Italian
Proverb
June 2010
"Pain
and/or suffering are inevitable, but misery is optional"
Attrib:
Unknown
May 2010
"Courage
is the first of human qualities,
because it is the quality which guarantees the others."
Attrib:
Aristotle
April 2010
"Socialism is a philosophy of
failure,
the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy,
it's inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery"
Attrib:
Winston Churchill
March 2010
"For as a man thinketh in his
heart, so is he."
Attrib: Proverbs
2 3:7
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February 2010
"The Mind is the man, and
knowledge mind; a man is but what he knoweth"
Attrib: Francis
Bacon
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January 2010
I like to see a man proud of the place in which
he lives.
I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him!
Attrib: Abraham
Lincoln - President of the USA
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December 2009
The man who complains about the way the ball bounces
is likely the one who dropped it!
Attrib: Lou
Holtz - American Football Coach
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November 2009
"You cannot acquire experience by making
experiments.
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it!"
Attrib: Albert Camus
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October 2009
Trust in God but tie up your camel.
Attrib: Old Persian Saying
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September 2009
Thirty spokes
converge upon a single hub;
It is the hole in the centre that the use of the cart hinges
We make a vessel from a lump of clay;
It is the empty space within the vessel that makes it useful
We make doors and windows for a room;
But it is these empty spaces that make the room livable
Thus, while the tangible has advantages,
It is the intangible that makes it useful…
Attrib: Tao
Teh Ching
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August 2009
"You
have made history, great history for the good of mankind..."
Attrib: George
C. Marshall to Dwight D. Eisenhower
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May 8th 1945
July 2009
"Do
you know it only took Germany
three days to conquer France in WWII?
And
that's
because it was raining."
Attrib: John
Xereas, Manager
June 2009
Twenty
years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do,
than by
the ones you did do.
So, throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour.
Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover"
Attrib: Mark Twain
May 2009
"Don't
fear the difficult moments, the best comes from them!"
Attrib: Dr Rita
Levi-Montalcini
Centenarian - Nobel Prize Winner
April 2009
I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I
don't deserve that either.
Attrib: Jack Benny
March 2009
Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner,
and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.
Attrib: Jack Benny
February 2009
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that
we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. Your playing
small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't
feel insecure around you.
We are all meant to shine as children do. It's not just in some of us; it
is in everyone.
And as we let our own lights shine, we unconsciously give other people
permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically
liberates others.
Attrib: Nelson Mandela
January 2009
If a man does his best, what else is there?
Attrib: General George Patton
December 2008
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few,
and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
Attrib: George Washington
November 2008
"You
were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser.
You are what you make yourself be."
Attrib:
Lou
Holtz
October 2008
"No nation is
fit to sit in judgement upon any other nation"
Attrib: Thomas
Woodrow Wilson, 1856 - 1924
Address, April, 1915
September 2008
"So, let us not be blind to our differences -
but let us also direct attention to our common interests
and to the means by which those differences can be resolved"
Attrib: John
F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963),
August 2008
"One cool
judgement is worth a thousand hasty councils"
Attrib:
Thomas Woodrow Wilson
1856 - 1924
July 2008
"Procrastination
is the thief of time"
Attrib:
Edward Young
(1683 - 1765)
June 2008
"Experience, the
name men give to their mistakes"
Attrib:
Oscar Wilde
May 2008
"Courage is the
first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the
others."
Attrib:
Aristotle
April 2008
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought
without accepting it.
Attrib: Aristotle
February 2008
Whoever
named it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
Attrib: Groucho Marx
December 2007
Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.
Attrib: Groucho Marx
October 2007
Never let the future disturb you.
You'll meet it if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today
arm you against the present.
Attrib: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD),
Meditations, 200 AD
September
2007
"We
can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we
created them."
Attrib:
Albert Einstein, 1879-1955
August 2007
"The harvest truly is
plenteous, but the labourers are few. "
Attrib:
Matthew 9:37
(Shades of the new millenium??)
July 2007
"Victory belongs to the most
persevering."
Attrib: Napoleon
April 2007
Words of Knowledge
Today
matters a lot.
Yesterday was only but a dream and tomorrow is only a vision?
Therefore, today’s hard work
will make every yesterday a dream of happiness
and every tomorrow a vision of hope
Attrib: Ib
January 2007
"To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children;
to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of
false friends;
to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others;
to leave the world a little better;
whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition;
to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is the meaning of success."
Attrib: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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December 2006
Humour Is Truth
Humour is something that thrives
between
man's aspirations and his limitations.
There is more logic in humor than in anything else.
Because, you see, humour is truth.
Attrib: Victor
Borge
November 2006
Wisdom
Not until just before dawn do people sleep best;
not until people get old do they become wise.
Attrib:
Chinese proverb
October 2006
"Music - The one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of
knowledge
which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot
comprehend."
Attrib: Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
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September 2006
"Art
is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity
transient."
Attrib:
Hippocrates
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May 2006
"Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat
it!"
Reference to the Holocaust
Attrib: George Santayana
Lest We Forget
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April 2006
If the past cannot teach the present, and the father cannot teach
the son,
then history need not have bothered to go on,
and the world has wasted a great deal of time.
Attrib: Russell Hoban
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From Patrick Lindsay's Happiness...It's never Too Late
to...
Trace your family tree
It's a fascinating exercise.
It gives a feeling of continuity.
It answers many questions.
And poses many more.
Show your heritage.
Reveal your tribe.
Draw the world closer together.
March 2006
Never give in. Never give in. Never give in.
Attrib: Sir Winston Churchill
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Whatever the position, whatever the expectations, you're
always in the game,
You have the power.
With self-belief and determination, you can change your fortunes.
You can turn things around.
You can come back.
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February 2006
Adopt the pace of nature:
Her secret is patience.
Attrib: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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From Patrick Lindsay's Happiness...It's never Too Late
Walk barefoot
Feel the sand between your toes,
and the living grass.
The warmth of the sun on the road.
Connect with the earth.
Feel the different textures.
Enliven your senses.
Savour the freedom.
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January 2006
We know what happens to people
who stay in the middle of the road,
They get run over.
Attrib: Aneurin Bevan
From Patrick Lindsay's Happiness...It's never Too Late
Take the path least travelled
It takes courage and confidence,
It has some risks but it often brings you great rewards:
the challenge of the new; the thrill of exploration; growth from
the learning;
and self-confidence from success.
December 2005
Inspiration
"Some
goals are so worthy,
its glorious even to fail"
Attrib: Anon
November 2005
Wisdom
Of Ages
A ship in harbor is safe,
but that is not what ships are for.
Attrib: Arabian Proverb
October 2005
Ireland is where strange tales begin
and happy endings are possible.
Attrib: Charles Haughey
September 2005
Is sex dirty? Only if it's done right.
Attrib:
Anon
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August 2005
"It all works out in the
end."
"If it's not working out for you right now...its not the end."
Attrib: Lb
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July 2005
Education is an admirable thing,
but it is well to remember
from time to time
that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught!
Attrib: Lb.
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February 2005
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to
deter us
from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
Ib 1859
Attrib: Abraham Lincoln
1809 - 1865
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January 2005
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Too bad that all the people who know how to run the
country
are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
Attrib: George Burns
Comedian
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December 2004
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get
insulted in places
where the average Negro could never hope to get insulted!
Attrib: Sammy Davis Jnr. (1925 -
1990)
American Entertainer
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November 2004
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"You can do more for your own health and wellbeing than
any doctor,
any hospital, any drug, any exotic medical advice."
Attrib: US Surgeon General's Report 1979
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October 2004
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Accept some days you are the pigeon and some days you are the statue!
Attrib: Roger C. Anderson
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September 2004
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Though no one can go back and make a brand new start.
Anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
Attrib: Anonymous
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August 2004
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The only problem with common sense is;
it's not common!
Attrib: Anonymous
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July 2004
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For everything you have missed,
you have gained something else!
Attrib: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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June 2004
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June 6th is the 60th Anniersary of the D Day Landings on the
French Coast
Operation Overlord
This address by United States General Dwight D.
Eisenhower was delivered to troops participating in Operation
Overlord, code name for the Allied invasion of Normandy. Bad
weather had almost foiled Eisenhower's plans for the attack, but
the D-Day invasion, as it came to be called, succeeded in
surprising the Germans and establishing a crucial allied beachhead
in France.
General Eisenhower's D-Day Proclamation
Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied
Expeditionary Force!
You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we
have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon
you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere
march with you. In company with our brave Allies and
brothers-in-arms on other Fronts, you will bring about the
destruction of the German war machine, the elimination of Nazi
tyranny over the oppressed peoples of Europe, and security for
ourselves in a free world.
Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well trained,
well equipped and battle-hardened. He will fight savagely.
But this is the year 1944! Much has happened since the Nazi
triumphs of 1940-41. The United Nations have inflicted upon the
Germans great defeats, in open battle, man-to-man. Our air
offensive has seriously reduced their strength in the air and
their capacity to wage war on the ground. Our Home Fronts have
given us an overwhelming superiority in weapons and munitions of
war, and placed at our disposal great reserves of trained fighting
men. The tide has turned! The free men of the world are marching
together to Victory!
I have full confidence in your courage, devotion to duty and skill
in battle. We will accept nothing less than full Victory!
Good Luck! And let us all beseech the blessing of
Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.
Dwight Eisenhower
Attrib:
General Dwight D. Eisenhower
Proclamation Delivery to the Troops before commencing the attack 60 Years Ago
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May 2004
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WORLD WAR II
You wear no uniforms and your weapons differ from ours –
but they are not less deadly.
The fact that you wear no uniforms is your strength.
The Nazi official and the German soldier don’t know you.
But they fear you.....The night is your friend. The ‘V’ is
your sign.
Attrib: Colonel Britton (Douglas Ritchie; 1905–67)
British propagandist.
Broadcast to the resistance movement in occupied Europe.
Radio broadcast, 1941
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April 2004
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Let us never negotiate out of fear.
But let us never fear to negotiate.
All this will not be finished in the first 100 days.
Nor will it be finished in the first 1,000 days,
nor in the life of this Administration,
nor even perhaps in the lifetime of this planet.
But let us begin.
Attrib: John F. Kennedy - 1917-1963
Inaugural address, 20 January 1961 p.227
Vital Speeches 1 February 1961
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March 2004
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Don't hunt for deer in pig country
Attrib: Barry Crump
Famous New Zealand Author and Bushman
A true Kiwi "Good Bloke"
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February 2004
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Anyone who keeps a savage dog
is scared of something!
Attrib: Barry Crump
Famous New Zealand Author and Bushman
A true Kiwi "Good Bloke"
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January 2004
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With malice toward none,
with charity for all, with firmness in the right,
as God gives us to see the right.
Attrib: Abraham Lincoln
Second Inaugural Address, 1865
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December 2003
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If you get to thinking you're a person of some
influence,
try ordering someone else's dog around!
Attrib: Will Rogers, American Actor and Humorist
1879 - 1935
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November 2003
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Iron rusts from disuse;
stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes
frozen;
even so does inaction sap the vigour of the mind.
Attrib: Leonardo da Vinci
1452 - 1519
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October 2003
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Human subtlety ...
will never devise an invention more beautiful,
more simple or more direct than does Nature,
because in her inventions nothing is lacking,
and nothing is superfluous.
Attrib: Leonardo da Vinci 1452 - 1519
Italian Painter and Designer
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September 2003
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To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be
nothing!
Attrib: Elbert Hubbard
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August 2003
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And so, my fellow Americans:
ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for
your country.
My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for
you,
but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
Attrib: J.F.Kennedy -
Inaugural speech 20th January 1961
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July 2003
I don't know who my grandfather was;
I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
Attrib: Abraham Lincoln
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June 2003
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Every so often we must lean into fate, sometimes it only
gives us one chance,
and if we ignore what it offers us, what could have been,
has gone!
Attrib: Book of Wisdom by Peter
Karston
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May 2003
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Life is a series of moments.
To live each one is to succeed.
Attrib: Corita Kent
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April 2003
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The old believe everything:
The middle-aged suspect everything:
The young know everything!
Attrib: Oscar Wilde
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March 2003
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Nothing in the world can take the place of
persistence.
Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful
men with talent.
Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education will not; the world is full of educated
failures.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Attrib: Calvin Coolidge
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February 2003
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The only time retirement comes before work is in
the dictionary.
Attrib: Ib
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January 2003
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Character is like a tree and reputation like it's
shadow.The shadow is what we think of it;
the tree is the
real thing.
Attrib: Abraham Lincoln 1809 - 1865
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December 2002
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You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time,
but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.
Attrib: Abraham Lincoln Speech, 1856
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November 2002
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There is no secret so close as that between a rider and
his horse.
Attrib: Surtees, 1803-1864
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October 2002
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No man needs sympathy because he has to work.
...Far and away the best prize that life offers is the
chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Attrib: Theodore Roosevelt,
Address 1903
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September 2002
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We love justice greatly, and just men but little.
Attrib: Joseph Roux, 1834-1886
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August 2002
Study the past if you would divine the future.
Attrib: Confucius
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