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Never call an accountant a credit to his profession;
a good accountant is a debit to his profession.
- Charles Lyell
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Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and,
in its true sense, a noble one.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I feel impelled to speak today in a language
that in a sense is new-one which I,
who have spent so much of my life in the military profession,
would have preferred never to use.
That new language is the language of atomic warfare.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious
throughout our society -
that women are now providing
all types of skills in every profession.
The military should be no exception.
- Jimmy Carter
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Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen
who would protect the rights and privileges of free people
and who would preserve what is
good and fruitful in our national heritage.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full.
Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem,
am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.
- Henry David Thoreau
Books constitute capital.
A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years.
It is not, then, an article of mere consumption
but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men,
setting out in life, it is their only capital.
- Thomas Jefferson
Books and friends should be few but good.
- Anonymous
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience:
this is the ideal life.
- Mark Twain
Books are mirrors:
you only see in them what you already have inside you.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Books serve to show a man
that those original thoughts of his
aren't very new at all.
- Abraham Lincoln
Who has fully realized that history
is not contained in thick books
but lives in our very blood?
- Carl Jung
Books can only reveal us to ourselves,
and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.
- Henry David Thoreau
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.
Just get people to stop reading them.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Be careful about reading health books.
You may die of a misprint.
- Mark Twain
Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection,
not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time.
- Martin Luther
The man who does not read good books
has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain
True justice is not a matter of courts and law books,
but of a commitment in each of us to liberty and mutual respect.
- Jimmy Carter
Read the best books first,
or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
- Henry David Thoreau
Reading about nature is fine, but if a person
walks in the woods and listens carefully,
he can learn more than what is in books,
for they speak with the voice of God.
- George Washington Carver
Books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- Bono
We do not need to proselytize
either by our speech or by our writing.
We can only do so really with our lives.
Let our lives be open books for all to study.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Books! I dunno if I ever told you this,
but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- Bono
Books are the treasured wealth of the world
and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
- Henry David Thoreau
A house without books is like a room without windows.
- Horace Mann
The things I want to know are in books;
my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
- Abraham Lincoln
I cannot live without books.
- Thomas Jefferson
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations...
The quotations, when engraved upon the memory, give you good thoughts.
They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.
- Winston Churchill
Each age, it is found, must write its own books;
or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics
even more than by the manner in which they are treated.
- Henry David Thoreau
Some books leave us free
and some books make us free.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can make more friends in two months
by becoming interested in other people
than you can in two years by trying
to get other people interested in you.
- Dale Carnegie
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
When true friends meet in adverse hour,
'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower.
A watery way an instant seen,
The darkly closing clouds between.
- Sir Walter Scott
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.
The difference between men friends and women friends
is that men tend to do things together,
women tend to just be together.
- Art Jahnke
Fate makes us family. choice makes us friends.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
No man is the whole of himself;
his friends are the rest of him.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick
Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
- Jacques Delille
True friends are appreciative and never demanding.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet
when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
- Anonymous
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous
So long as the memory of certain
beloved friends lives in my heart,
I shall say that life is good.
- Helen Keller
"We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?" asked Piglet.
"Even longer," Pooh answered.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
Friends share our pain and touch our wounds
with a gentle and tender hand.
- Henri Nouwen
Friends love misery, in fact.
Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky
or too successful or too pretty,
our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
- Erica Jong
Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
- Abraham Lincoln
Friends... they cherish one another's hopes.
They are kind to one another's dreams.
- Henry David Thoreau
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families.
- Anonymous
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
Can miles truly separate us from friends?
If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?
- Richard Bach
I no doubt deserved my enemies,
but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
- Walt Whitman
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving
for my friends, the old and the new.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
Friends are like bras:
close to your heart and there for support.
- Anonymous
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
It is better to be in chains with friends,
than to be in a garden with strangers.
- Persian Proverb
Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous
Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
In all my ways of seeing - may I use new glasses,
a telescope and a microscope.
And may I always allow myself to see a circumstance
through the tender hearts of my friends.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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