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Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own.

– Doug Larson

FANATIC: Someone who redoubles his effort when he has forgotten his aim.

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.

– Aldous Huxley

EXPERT: An “EX” is a has-been such as in “Ex-President”, a “SPURT” is a drip under pressure, so an EXPERT is a “has-been drip under pressure”!

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

– Peter F. Drucker

Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.

– Alfred North Whitehead

Everything should be as simple as possible, but not simpler.

– Albert Einstein

Everything that is done in the world, is done by hope.

– Martin Luther

Everything is simpler than you think, and more complex than you imagine.

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

– Bertrand Russell

Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed … Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn’t matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle … when the sun comes up, you’d better be running.

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

– Thomas Huxley

Ever notice that people who try to give you ADVICE never seem as intelligent as those who ask for yours?

Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

– Pablo Picasso

Every action has an equal and opposite criticism.

Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created.

– Jacob Bronowski

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

– Pablo Picasso

Every day, try to help someone who can’t reciprocate your kindness.

– Coach John Wooden

Eternity is the only time measure that can do justice to all the possibilities life has to offer.

– “The Watchtower” magazine

Even if you’re on the right track you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

– Will Rogers

Emotion is not something shameful, subordinate, second-rate; It is a supremely valid phase of humanity at its noblest and most mature.

Empty wagons make the most noise.

– Mrs. Dukes, Nick’s 8th grade teacher

EGOTISM and CONCEIT are the only diseases that make everybody sick except those that have them.

Dreams come true; without that possibility nature would not incite us to have them.

– John Updike

During almost fifteen centuries the legal establishment of Christianity has been upon trial. What has been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in the laity,; in both, superstition, bigotry, and persecution.

– James Madison

Duty makes us do things well. Love makes us do thing beautifully.

Each time history repeats itself, the price does up.

– Ronald Wright

Don’t waste a good imagination on worrying.

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