"Often our good deeds make enemies for us, and the ungrateful person despises us on two counts; for he is not only unwilling to acknowledge the gratitude he owes us: he does not want to have his benefactor as witness to his thankless behavior."

-- Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

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“Paradoxically one of the greatest advantages of mind maps is that they are seldom needed again. The very act of constructing a map is itself so effective in fixing ideas in memory that very often a whole map can recalled without going back to it at all. A mind map is so strongly visual and uses so many of the natural functions of memory that frequently it can be simply read off in the mind's eye.”
“Give Him your mess and let it become your message.”
“It will afford me unfeigned satisfaction if my kingdom can add its quota toward the successful accomplishment of the most important astronomical observation of the present century and assist, however humbly, the enlightened nations of the earth in these costly enterprises .”
“Every family is different. I am mom and I am dad and I'm going to do my best. You should be proud, walk through life saying I have the coolest family. I am part of a modern family.”
“I ain't gonna get this, it's a horror movie, it's hard to act scared.”
“No. I probably do better not being in politics. They have too much control over you when you are in politics.”
“Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.”
“In such a fearful world, we need a fearless church”

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