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If you find yourself occasionally running on empty and searching for some encouragement, inspiration or perhaps even just a chuckle or two, you’ve come to the right place! Check these out:

• “Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.” – Rene Descartes
• “Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.” – Albert Camus
• “There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.” – James Thurber
• “Stuffed deer heads on walls are bad enough, but it’s worse when they are wearing dark glasses and have streamers in their antlers because then you know they were enjoying themselves at a party when they were shot.” – Ellen DeGeneres
• “An optimist stays up to see the new year in. A pessimist waits to make sure the old one leaves.” – Bill Vaughan
• “It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.” – Peter Ustinov
• “It is said that power corrupts, but actually it’s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.” – David Brin
• “The National Rifle Association says, ‘Guns don’t kill people. People do.’ But I think the gun helps.” – Eddie Izzard
• “The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.” – Alice Roosevelt Longworth
• “Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.” – Rabbi Julius Gordon
• “Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.” – Katherine Hepburn
• “Personally, I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like to be taught.” – Winston Churchill
• “Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.” – Samuel Butler
• “I wanna hang a map of the world in my house. Then I’m gonna put pins into all the locations that I’ve traveled to. But first, I’m gonna have to travel to the top two corners of the map so it won’t fall down.” – Mitch Hedberg
• “Don’t knock the weather. If it didn’t change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn’t start a conversation.” – Kim Hubbard
• “We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine.” – H. L. Menken
• “It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one’s thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone else with them.” – Isabelle Colgate
• “Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success – yours or his.” – Franklin P. Jones
• “If God had meant for men to fly, He’d have made it easier to get to the airport.” – George Winters
• “Or one might say, people who don’t share trust are less intelligent together; people who share trust are smarter together.” – Jack Ricchiuto
• “Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.” – unknown
• “The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.” – Thomas Carlyle
• “Laugh, and the world laughs with you, snore, and you sleep alone.” – Anthony Burgess
• “Wherever you go, there you are.” – Jon Kabat-Zinn
• “Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction.” – E. F. Shumacher
• “Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.” – Dave Barry
• “After twelve years of therapy my psychiatrist said something that brought tears to my eyes. He said, ‘No hablo ingles.’” – Ronnie Shakes
• “Don’t try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.” – Phillip K. Dick
• “Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.” – Herbert Henry Asquith
• “The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it’s their fault.” – Henry Kissinger
• “Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
• “We do not remember days … we remember moments. – Cesare Pavese
• “Thomas Jefferson once said, ‘We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.’ And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.” – Ronald Reagan
• “Any man whose errors take 10 years to correct is quite a man.” – J. Robert Oppenhiemer

And to wrap up this edition of Great Quotes, I leave you with what may be the best, most practical advice I’ve seen to date:

• “If you’re going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill

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