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• There is no such thing as a "self-made" man. We are made up of thousands of others.
  Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and our thoughts, as well as our success....
• It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.
  -- Feodor Dostoyevski, "The Possessed...
• We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.
  -- Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace)...
• What has reality ever done for ME?? It made misery real!
• He who reforms himself, has done more towards reforming the public, than a crowd of noisy, impotent patriots.
  -- Lavate...
• Lisa: In the beginning of the school year, each of you received a colored ticket.
  I hope everyone still has theirs. Crowd: Not me....
• One who is contented with what he has done will never become famous for what he will do.
  He has lain down to die, and the grass is already over him. -- Christian Nestell Bovee...
• He who has, worries; he who has not, longs.
• He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope has everything. -- Arabian Proverb