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The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.    
(Henry Ford)

Experience is not what happens to you.
 It is what you do with what happens to you.    
(Aldous Huxly)

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.    
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Oor greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising ever time we fall.    
(Oliver Goldsmith)

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but thier echos are truly endless.    
(Mother Teresa)

We learn from history that we do not learn from history.    
(Freiedrich Hegel)

The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and have it found out by accident.    
(Charles Lamb)

If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought.    
(Dennis Roach)

America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directory from barbarism to degeneration
 without the usal interval of civilization.    
(Georges Clemenciau)

Who controls the past controls the future.
Who controls the present controls the past.    
(George Orwell)

You will never find time for anything. If you want time you mast make it.    
(Charles Buxton)

Distiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice;
 it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.   
(William Bryan)

You can not teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within himself.    
(Galileo Galilei)

Diligence is the mother of good luck.    
(Benjamin Franklin)

It is better to wear out than to rust out.    
(Richard Chamberland)

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.    
(Herodotus)

We will either find a way, or make one.    
(Hannibal)

Action is eloquence.    
(William Shakespeare)

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience
 in which you really stop to look fear in the face.   
(Anne Eleanor Roosevelt)

All our dreams can come true - if we have the courage to pursue them.    
(Walt Disney)

He who is the most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in the performance of it.    
(Jean Jacques Rousseau)

Nover to repent and never to reproach others; these are the first step of wisdom.    
(Denis Diderot)

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing
 now that I am old I know that it is.   
(Oscar Wiilde)

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.    
(Dale Carnegie)

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.    
(Thomas H. Huxley)

Man errs so long as he strives.    
(Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the positions that one has reached in life
  as by the obstacles whichi one has overcome while trying to succedd.    
(Booker Washington)

He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.    
(Johann Wolfgang von Geathe)

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.    
(William Shakespeare)

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead,
 eighter write things worth reading or do things worth writeing.   
(Benjamin Franklin)

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.    
(Mahatma Gandhi)

Nothng is in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientius stupidity.    
(Martin Luther King Jr.)

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.    
(Mao Zedong)

Adversity is the first path to truth.    
(George Bayron)

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego go with it.    
(Colin Powell)

Energy and persistence conqur all things.    
(Benjamin Franklin)

We stand today on the edge of a new frontier.   
(John F.Kennedy)

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tommorrow.
The important thing is not to stop quesioning.   
(Albert Einstein)

A note of music gains significance from the silence on eigher side.    
(Anne Lindberge)

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keep learning stays youg.
The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.    
(Henry Ford)

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulies disappear and obstacles vanish into air.    
(John Adams)

Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.    
(Anna Eleanor Roosevelt)

Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it.    
(Terry Wogan)

Tis better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all double.    
(Abraham Lincoln)

Try not to become a man of success, but rather a man of value.    
(Albert Einstein)

I shut my eyes in order to see.    
(Paul Gauguin)

I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.    
(Mary Montagu)

The sweary players in the game of life always have more fun than the supercilious spectators.    
(William Feather)

The more I learn the more I realize I dont't know.
The more I realize I don't know the more I want to learn.    
(Albert Einstein)

Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.   
(John Payne)

Be the change you wish to see in other people.     
(Mahatma Gandhi)

Courage to start and willingness to keep everlasting at it are the requisites for success.    
(Alonzo Benn)

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.    
(Buddha)

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.    
(Alfred Tennyson)

Man lives freely only by the readiness to die.    
(Mahatma Gandhi)

Don't give your advise before you are called uopn.    
(Desiderius Erasmus)

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.    
(Galileo Glilei)

Life is an excitiong business and most exciting when it is lived for others.    
(Helen Keller)

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.    
(Victor Hugo)

We are not limited by our old age, we are liberated bu it.    
(Stu Mittleman)

Every man's life is a fairy-tale written by God's finger.   
(Hans Christian Andersen)

No man is free who cannot control himself.    
(Pythagoras)

Tell me what company you keep, and I'll tell you what you are.    
(Migual Cervantes)

The strongest man on the earth is the one who stands most alone.    
(Henrik Ibsen)

If you woulld be loved, love and be lovable.    
(Benjamin Franklin)

The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days os success,
 but rather those days when out of dejection and disapair
 you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishment.    
(Gustave Flaubert)

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be out doubles of today.    
(Franklin Roosevelt)
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   Aldous Huxly  イギリスの小説家 知性の作家として感情の作家と言われる D.H.ローレンスと比較される Thomas H Huxley の孫 
   Ralph Waldo Emerson  アメリカの思想家、詩人 牧師を辞して英国へ渡り、ワーズワース、カーライル等と親交を結ぶ 「超絶主義」の思想を確率
   Oliver Goldsmith  イギリスの詩人、劇作家、小説家 
   Freiedrich Hegel  近代ドイツ最大の哲学者 ヘーゲル派の指導者 死後、弟子たちによりドイツ観念論が完成され、マルクスにも大きな影響を与えた
   Charles Lamb  イギリスの作家、批評家 随筆文学最高傑作といわれる「エリア随筆」がある
   Georges Clemenceau  フランスの政治家 首相になり第一次世界大戦を乗り切りドイツからライン川西岸の領土を取り返した
   George Orwell  イギリスの小説家 スペイン内乱で負傷 ソ連の独裁政治を風刺し「動物農場」全体主義の恐怖を描く「1984年」を発表
   Charles Buxton  イギリスの作家
   William Bryan  アメリカの弁護士、政治家 ウィルソン大統領の国務長官に任命された
   Galileo Galilei  イタリアの物理学者、天文学者 25歳でピサ大学教授 慣性の法則を発明 望遠鏡を発明して木星の衛星、太陽の黒点を発見
   Benjamin Franklin  アメリカの科学者、政治家 稲妻が電気であることを凧で実験 「フランクリン自伝」は自伝文学の傑作
   Charles Buxton  イギリスの作家
   Richard Chamberland  アメリカの俳優
   Herodotus  ギリシャの歴史家 小アジアや中東を広く旅行し、収集した資料で壮大な歴史物語を書いた
   Hannibal  カルタゴの将軍、政治家 第2次ポエニ戦争で大勝利に導いたがザマの戦いで決定的な敗北を喫し、自ら命を絶った
   Anne Eleanor Roosevelt  フランクリンルーズベルト大統領の夫人 夫が40歳でポリオに罹ってから代わって地方を回り政策を助けた
   Jean Jacques Rousseau  フランスの思想家 「社会契約論」を書き「自由、平等、兄弟愛」はフランス革命のモットーとなった
   Denis Diderot  フランスの思想家、文学者 「大百科事典」の編集に携わった
   Oscar Wiilde  アイルランド出身の詩人、作家 道徳、宗教を否定した耽美主義作家 「ドリアン・グレイの肖像」などの作品
   Dale Carnegie  アメリカの著述家 「人を動かす」「道は開ける」など
   Thomas H. Huxley  イギリスの動物学者 「ハクスリー層」と呼ばれる内毛根 鞘の細胞層を発見
   Johann Wolfgang Goethe  ドイツの詩人、小説家 「若きウエルテルの悩み」「ファウスト」 ダンテ、シェクスピアと並んで世界の3大詩人といわれた
   Mao Zedong  毛沢東
   Anne Lindberge  大西洋横断の単独無着陸飛行に成功したアメリカの飛行家の妻 作家
   Terry Wogan  イギリスの著述家 ラジオ番組で人気を博す 著作に「その日の仕事」など
   Paul Gauguin  フランスの後期印象派の画家 ゴッホとの共同生活の後、タヒチに移住
   Mary Montagu  イギリスの書簡文作家
   William Feather  アメリカの著述家 
   John Payne  アメリカの劇作家、詩人 Home Sweet Home の歌詞 楽劇「ミラノの女クラリ」の詩で不屈の名を得る
   Alonzo Benn  アメリカの政治家
   Alfred Tennyson  イギリス、ビクトリア時代の代表的詩人 ワーズワースに次ぐ国民的英雄となった
   Desiderius Erasmus  オランダの哲学者 ルネッサンス期最高の知識人と称された 「愚神礼賛」は有名
   Victor Hugo  フランスの詩人、小説家、劇作家 「レ・ミゼラブル」など
   Stu Mittleman  アメリカのアスリート フィットネス・トレーニングのパイオニア
   Hans Christian Andersen  デンマークの児童文学作家 欧州各国を旅して「即興詩人」が有名 「人形姫」「鉛の兵隊」「ナイチンゲール」など
   Pythagora  ギリシャの哲学者 三平方の定理(ピタゴラスの定理)や無理数の発見など数学史上の業績
   Migual Cervantes  スペインの作家 ドン・キホーテの作者
   Henrik Ibsen  ノールウェーの劇作家 「ペールギュント」「人形の家」など世界的名声を得る 近代劇の父とも呼ばれる
   Gustave Flaubert  フランスの小説家 「ボヴァリー夫人」
   Franklin Roosevelt  40歳の時にポリオで両足の障害 大恐慌の時期と第2次世界大戦まで4期大統領 ヤルタ会談の後急逝
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   A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.  明日の百より、今日の50. 手の中の鳥は、藪の中の2羽に値する
   A friend in need is a frient indeed.  困ったときの友はこそ真の友
   A stich in time saves nine.  早めの一針は、9針の手間を省く
   All is not gold that glitters.  光るものは必ずしも金ならず
     
   All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.  良く学び、良く遊べ
   Birds of a feather flock together.  同じ羽根の鳥は、群れ集まる。 類は友を呼ぶ
   Good medicine tastes bitter to the mouth.  良薬は口に苦し
   Heaven helps those who helps themselves.  天は自ら助けるものを助ける
     
   It is no use crying over spilt milk.  覆水盆に返らず
   Look before you leap.  転ばぬ先の杖。跳ぶ前に見よ
   Make hay while the sun shines.  好機逸するべからず。  日の照るうちに干草をつくれ
   Necessity is the mother of invention.  必要は、発明の母である
     
   Out of sight , out of mind.  去る者は日々に疎し
   Rome was not built in a day.  ローマは一日にしてならず
   Slow and steady wins the race.  急いては事を仕損ずる
   Strike the iron while it is hot.  鉄は熱い内に打て
     
   The early bird catches the worm.  早起きの鳥は虫を捉える。  早起きは3文の得
   There is no accounting for taste.  蓼食う虫もいろいろ
   There is no place like home.  我が家にまさるところな
   There lives more faith in honest doubt than in half the creeds.  中途半端に信ずるより正直な疑問の方が、誠意がある
     
   Time and tide waits for no one.  歳月人を待たず
   Too many cooks spoil the broth.  料理人が多すぎると、肉汁がだめになる。  船頭多くして舟丘に登る
   What cannot be cured must be endured.  治せないものは、我慢しなければならない
   When in Rome , do as the Romas do.  郷に入りては、郷に従え
   Where there is the will , there is a way.  精神一到何事がならざらん。  意思あるところに道がある

   
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