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- Abba Eban His ignorance is encyclopedic. - Abba Eban Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly. - Arnold Edinborough Many of life's faliures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. - Thomas Edison Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work. - Thomas A. Edison We don't know a millionth of one percent about everything. Thomas A. Edison Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls, and looks like work. - Thomas A. Edison Show me a thoroughly satisfied man, and I will show you a failure. - Thomas A. Edison He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today. - Tryon Edwards Albert Einstein We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it. - Dwight D. Eisenhower What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog. - Dwight D. Eisenhower Americans, indeed all freemen, remember that in the final choice, a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner's chains. - Dwight D. Eisenhower I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it. - Dwight D. Eisenhower Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. - Dwight D. Eisenhower You do not lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership. - Dwight D. Eisenhower A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. - Dwight D. Eisenhower Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. - George Eliot Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. - T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. - T. S. Eliot This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper. - T. S. Eliot It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man. - Professor Scott Elledge on his retirement from Cornell A problem is a chance for you to do your best. - Duke Ellington Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another. - Walter Elliott What we call "morals" is simply blind obedience to words of command. - Havelock Ellis Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life. - Ralph Waldo Emerson The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him. - Ralph Waldo Emerson It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Vigor is contagious, and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly ads to our power and enlarges our field of action. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Always do what you are afraid to do. - Ralph Waldo Emerson What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. - Ralph Waldo Emerson To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven. - Ralph Waldo Emerson A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud. - Ralph Waldo Emerson I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Hitch your wagon to a star. - Ralph Waldo Emerson The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. - Ralph Waldo Emerson The reward of a thing well done is to have it done. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Every man I meet is in some way my superior. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Patience and fortitude conquer all things. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis. - Ralph Waldo Emerson A man is known by the books he reads. - Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 bit 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 to have succeeded. - Ralph Waldo Emerson I hate quotations. - Ralph Waldo Emerson To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men - that is genius. - Ralph Waldo Emerson It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. - Ralph Waldo Emerson God enters by a private door into every individual. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams. - Ralph Waldo Emerson The greatest gift is a portion of thyself. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying. - Ralph Waldo Emerson A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak. - Epictetus First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. - Epictetus War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it. - Desiderius Erasmus There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me. - John Erskine Millions long for immortality but do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. - Susan Ertz I don't use drugs; my dreams are frightening enough. - M.C. Escher Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. - Euripides The camera cannot lie. But it can be an accessory to untruth. - Harold Evans I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do. - Edward Everett Failing doesn't make you a failure. Giving up, accepting your failure, refusing to try again does. - Richard Exely See, I am sending an angel ahead of you to guard you along the way... - Exodus 23:20 |