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-- ' + author[quotenumber] + '
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quotes[1] = "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.";
quotes[2] = "Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over and expecting things to be different.";
quotes[3] = "Fear grows out of the things we think; it lives in our minds. Compassion grows out of the things we are, and lives in our hearts.";
quotes[4] = "Never drink black coffee at lunch; it will keep you awake in the afternoon.";
quotes[5] = "Commitment means we haven't left ourselves an escape hatch.";
quotes[6] = "All of life is a foreign country.";
quotes[7] = "What is truth? I don't know, and I'm sorry I brought it up.";
quotes[8] = "You must be the change you wish to see in the world.";
quotes[9] = "Patience - and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.";
quotes[10] = "I look back on my life like a good day's work. It was done and I am satisfied with it.";
quotes[11] = "If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she sat down in the bus in Montgomery, she'd still be standing.";
quotes[12] = "I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.";
quotes[13] = "The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.";
quotes[14] = "I think there is a world market for about five computers.";
quotes[15] = "Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible.";
quotes[16] = "Radio has no future.";
quotes[17] = "Now is the time to behave like a duck - stay calm and unruffled on top, but paddle like hell underneath.";
quotes[18] = "Everyone has a talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.";
quotes[19] = "How do I work? I grope.";
quotes[20] = "The pitcher cries for water to carry. And a person for work that is real.";
quotes[21] = "When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.";
quotes[22] = "You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.";
quotes[23] = "The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.";
quotes[24] = "People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.";
quotes[25] = "Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you.";
quotes[26] = "Never apologize for showing feeling. Remember that when you do so you apologize for truth.";
quotes[27] = "The day in the woods I took a compass was the day I got lost for sure.";
quotes[28] = "I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.";
quotes[29] = "Take your life into your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.";
quotes[30] = "If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?";
quotes[31] = "Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.";
quotes[32] = "Character is power.";
quotes[33] = "Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them. They make the impossible happen.";
quotes[34] = "Some men see the world as it is and ask why; others see the world as it might be and ask why not.";
quotes[35] = "Leadership is not found in position; it is found in action and influence.";
quotes[36] = "Managers are people who do things right, and leaders are people who do the right thing.";
quotes[37] = "You don't have to hold a position in order to be a leader.";
quotes[38] = "Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.";
quotes[39] = "When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally.";
quotes[40] = "Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.";
quotes[41] = "A good leader inspires others with confidence in him; a great leader inspires them with confidence in themselves.";
quotes[42] = "Leadership is action, not position.";
quotes[43] = "Real leaders are ordinary people with extraordinary determination.";
quotes[44] = "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.";
quotes[45] = "Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.";
quotes[46] = "Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.";
quotes[47] = "Underpromise; overdeliver.";
quotes[48] = "I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.";
quotes[49] = "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.";
quotes[50] = "Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.";
quotes[51] = "Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sun-dial in the shade?";
quotes[52] = "Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.";
quotes[53] = "Television is for appearing on - not for looking at.";
quotes[54] = "Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything.";
quotes[55] = "Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.";
quotes[56] = "All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.";
quotes[57] = "The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.";
quotes[58] = "To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.";
quotes[59] = "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.";
quotes[60] = "It's good to shut up sometimes.";
quotes[61] = "Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.";
quotes[62] = "Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.";
quotes[63] = "All revolutionary changes are unthinkable until they happen--and then they are understood to be inevitable.";
quotes[64] = "I always had a decent sense of outrage.";
quotes[65] = "Only the truth is revolutionary.";
quotes[66] = "I put a dollar in a change machine. Nothing happened.";
quotes[67] = "Despair is a greater deceiver than hope.";
quotes[68] = "Have patience! In time, even grass becomes milk.";
quotes[69] = "Whatever people in general do not understand, they are always prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.";
quotes[70] = "Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.";
quotes[71] = "When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.";
quotes[72] = "We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.";
quotes[73] = "Love involves a peculiar, unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.";
quotes[74] = "The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.";
quotes[75] = "With genuine love and compassion, another person's appearance or behavior has no effect on your attitude. Real compassion comes from seeing the other's suffering. You feel a sense of responsibility, and you want to do something for him or her.";
quotes[76] = "No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.";
quotes[77] = "It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.";
quotes[78] = "In this world, you must be a bit too kind to be kind enough.";
quotes[79] = "Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.";
quotes[80] = "It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with my problems longer.";
quotes[81] = "He who cannot dance claims the floor is uneven.";
quotes[82] = "I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse.";
quotes[83] = "Those are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others.";
quotes[84] = "One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.";
quotes[85] = "I would rather be the man who bought the Brooklyn Bridge than the man who sold it.";
quotes[86] = "Everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself.";
quotes[87] = "Nothing is less important than which fork you use.";
quotes[88] = "Skilled pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.";
quotes[89] = "We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing; others judge us by what we have done.";
quotes[90] = "I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.";
quotes[91] = "When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.";
quotes[92] = "To change one's life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly. No exceptions.";
quotes[93] = "Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.";
quotes[94] = "A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.";
quotes[95] = "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.";
quotes[96] = "A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.";
quotes[97] = "College isn't the place to go for ideas.";
quotes[98] = "Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.";
quotes[99] = "My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.";
quotes[100] = "Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.";
quotes[101] = "I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.";
quotes[102] = "Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.";
quotes[103] = "Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.";
quotes[104] = "The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.";
quotes[105] = "Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.";
quotes[106] = "Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.";
quotes[107] = "It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.";
quotes[108] = "I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.";
quotes[109] = "If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.";
quotes[110] = "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.";
quotes[111] = "For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else.";
quotes[112] = "The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.";
quotes[113] = "When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.";
quotes[114] = "If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get one million miles to the gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.";
quotes[115] = "He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.";
quotes[116] = "If you can't return a favor, pass it on.";
quotes[117] = "Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.";
quotes[118] = "The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.";
quotes[119] = "Good questions outrank easy answers.";
quotes[120] = "Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.";
quotes[121] = "Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.";
quotes[122] = "The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.";
quotes[123] = "Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble.";
quotes[124] = "Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.";
quotes[125] = "When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?";
quotes[126] = "There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.";
quotes[127] = "Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.";
quotes[128] = "Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.";
quotes[129] = "Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.";
quotes[130] = "As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.";
quotes[131] = "Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago?";
quotes[132] = "Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.";
quotes[133] = "You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.";
quotes[134] = "We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.";
quotes[135] = "Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.";
quotes[136] = "I am still learning.";
quotes[137] = "I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.";
quotes[138] = "If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.";
quotes[139] = "Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.";
quotes[140] = "By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task completely overwhelm me.";
quotes[141] = "It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.";
quotes[142] = "Many candles can be kindled from one candle without diminishing it.";
quotes[143] = "Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.";
quotes[144] = "Nothing of consequence happened today.";
quotes[145] = "I don't know anything about music. In my line, you don't have to.";
quotes[146] = "Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.";
quotes[147] = "Quote me as saying I was misquoted.";
quotes[148] = "More persons are humbugged by believing nothing than by believing too much.";
quotes[149] = "My brain is the key that sets me free.";
quotes[150] = "You cannot cross a chasm in two small jumps.";
quotes[151] = "Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods.";
quotes[152] = "Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.";
quotes[153] = "Next week there can't be any crisis. My schedule is already full.";
quotes[154] = "Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.";
quotes[155] = "Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.";
quotes[156] = "Don't be so humble; you're not that great.";
quotes[157] = "Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.";
quotes[158] = "Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.";
quotes[159] = "One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.";
quotes[160] = "I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.";
quotes[161] = "The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style.";
quotes[162] = "Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.";
quotes[163] = "There is more to life than increasing its speed.";
quotes[164] = "I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.";
quotes[165] = "Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.";
quotes[166] = "If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.";
quotes[167] = "Never mistake motion for action.";
quotes[168] = "If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.";
quotes[169] = "Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.";
quotes[170] = "If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?";
quotes[171] = "In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.";
quotes[172] = "We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?";
quotes[173] = "We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction.";
quotes[174] = "What the Caterpiller calls the end of the world, the Master calls a butterfly.";
quotes[175] = "When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.";
quotes[176] = "I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: 'Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.'";
quotes[177] = "I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks.";
quotes[178] = "The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.";
quotes[179] = "I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis, and I don't deserve that, either.";
quotes[180] = "He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.";
quotes[181] = "One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. 'Which road do I take?' she asked. 'Where do you want to go?' was his response. 'I don't know,' Alice answered. 'Then,' said the cat, 'it doesn't matter.'";
quotes[182] = "Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, I find it difficult to say whether the hard things or the plesant things did me the most good.";
quotes[183] = "Life itself is the proper binge.";
quotes[184] = "There is no poetry where there are no mistakes.";
quotes[185] = "Failure is an event, never a person.";
quotes[186] = "If you're going through hell, keep going.";
quotes[187] = "Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.";
quotes[188] = "Change management is an oxymoron ... it is really about dealing with unanticipated consequences and helping to bring order to chaos during the transition phase.";
quotes[189] = "We all need a little courage now and then. That's what I need. If you have some to share, I want to know you. Your criticisms you can keep to yourself.";
quotes[190] = "If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito.";
author = new Array(numberofquotes+1);
author[1] = "Margaret Mead";
author[2] = "Source Unknown";
author[3] = "Barbara Garrison";
author[4] = "Jilly Cooper";
author[5] = "Charlotte Joko Beck";
author[6] = "Jack Kerouac";
author[7] = "Edward Abbey";
author[8] = "Mohandas Gandhi";
author[9] = "Chinese proverb";
author[10] = "Grandma Moses";
author[11] = "Mary Frances Berry";
author[12] = "Peter De Vries";
author[13] = "Benjamin Jowett";
author[14] = "Thomas J. Watson, chairman of IBM, in 1943";
author[15] = "Astronomer Simon Newcomb, in 1902";
author[16] = "Lord Kelvin (1824-1907), president of the British Royal Society";
author[17] = "Winston Churchill";
author[18] = "Edgar Degas";
author[19] = "Albert Einstein";
author[20] = "Marge Piercy";
author[21] = "Abraham Joshua Heschel";
author[22] = "M. Scott Peck";
author[23] = "Theodore Rubin";
author[24] = "Ralph Waldo Emerson";
author[25] = "Annie Dillard";
author[26] = "Benjamin Disraeli";
author[27] = "John Cage";
author[28] = "Duke Ellington";
author[29] = "Erica Jong";
author[30] = "Lily Tomlin";
author[31] = "William Butler Yeats";
author[32] = "Booker T. Washington";
author[33] = "Dr. Robert Jarvik";
author[34] = "Bernard Shaw";
author[35] = "Glen Martin and Gary MacIntosh";
author[36] = "Warren Bennis";
author[37] = "Anthony J. D'Angelo";
author[38] = "John F. Kennedy";
author[39] = "Lao Tse";
author[40] = "Marian Anderson";
author[41] = "Source Unknown";
author[42] = "Source Unknown";
author[43] = "Source Unknown";
author[44] = "George Bernard Shaw";
author[45] = "Margaret Thatcher";
author[46] = "Mike Ditka";
author[47] = "Tom Peters";
author[48] = "Wilbur Wright, declining an interview";
author[49] = "Thomas Edison";
author[50] = "Reggie Leach";
author[51] = "Benjamin Franklin";
author[52] = "Chinese Proverb";
author[53] = "Noel Coward";
author[54] = "Charles Kuralt";
author[55] = "Sigmund Freud";
author[56] = "Galileo";
author[57] = "Niels Bohr";
author[58] = "Elbert Hubbard";
author[59] = "Helen Keller";
author[60] = "Marcel Marceau";
author[61] = "Henry Van Dyke";
author[62] = "Source Unknown";
author[63] = "Theodore Roszak";
author[64] = "Bella Abzug";
author[65] = "Graffiti, Paris, May 1968";
author[66] = "George Carlin";
author[67] = "Marquis de Vauvenargues";
author[68] = "Charan Singh";
author[69] = "L.E. Landon";
author[70] = "Anne Morrow Lindbergh";
author[71] = "Ernest Hemingway";
author[72] = "George Eliot";
author[73] = "Diane Arbus";
author[74] = "Frances Willard";
author[75] = "The Dalai Lama";
author[76] = "Viktor Frankl";
author[77] = "Mohandes K. Gandhi";
author[78] = "Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux";
author[79] = "Will Rogers";
author[80] = "Albert Einstein";
author[81] = "Hindu saying";
author[82] = "Florence Nightingale";
author[83] = "Groucho Marx";
author[84] = "May Sarton";
author[85] = "Will Rogers";
author[86] = "Leo Tolstoy";
author[87] = "Emily Post";
author[88] = "Epicurus";
author[89] = "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow";
author[90] = "G.K. Chesterton";
author[91] = "R. Buckminster Fuller";
author[92] = "William James";
author[93] = "Sam Ewing";
author[94] = "Jack London";
author[95] = "Pablo Picasso";
author[96] = "Ralph Waldo Emerson";
author[97] = "Helen Keller";
author[98] = "Oscar Wilde";
author[99] = "Errol Flynn";
author[100] = "George Burns";
author[101] = "Woodrow Wilson";
author[102] = "Confucius";
author[103] = "W.H. Auden";
author[104] = "Casey Stengel";
author[105] = "Theodore Roosevelt";
author[106] = "W. Edwards Deming";
author[107] = "Oliver Wendell Holmes";
author[108] = "Thomas Jefferson";
author[109] = "Mary Pickford";
author[110] = "Thomas Edison";
author[111] = "Winston Churchill";
author[112] = "Groucho Marx";
author[113] = "W. Somerset Maugham";
author[114] = "Robert X. Cringely";
author[115] = "Albert Einstein";
author[116] = "Louise Brown";
author[117] = "Mary Kay Ash";
author[118] = "Max De Pree";
author[119] = "Paul A. Samuelson";
author[120] = "William A. Ward";
author[121] = "Aldous Huxley";
author[122] = "Robert Frost";
author[123] = "Arabic Proverb";
author[124] = "Henry Ford";
author[125] = "Sydney Harris";
author[126] = "Marshall McLuhan";
author[127] = "Mahatma Gandhi";
author[128] = "Malcolm Forbes"
author[129] = "H. Jackson Brown, Jr."
author[130] = "Josh Billings"
author[131] = "Bernice Fitz-Gibbon"
author[132] = "Brendan Hills"
author[133] = "Ziggy"
author[134] = "Epictetus"
author[135] = "Cousin Woodman"
author[136] = "Michelangelo"
author[137] = "Poul Anderson"
author[138] = "Pope John Paul I"
author[139] = "Bob Perelman"
author[140] = "Ashleigh Brilliant"
author[141] = "Seneca"
author[142] = "Jewish Midrash"
author[143] = "Edward R. Murrow"
author[144] = "King George III's diary, July 4, 1776"
author[145] = "Elvis Presley"
author[146] = "Wyatt Earp"
author[147] = "Groucho Marx"
author[148] = "P.T. Barnum"
author[149] = "Harry Houdini"
author[150] = "David Lloyd Jones"
author[151] = "Alexander Graham Bell"
author[152] = "Martin Luther King, Jr."
author[153] = "Henry Kissinger"
author[154] = "Dandemis"
author[155] = "Rabindranath Tagore"
author[156] = "Golda Meir"
author[157] = "Henry Ford"
author[158] = "Redd Foxx"
author[159] = "Woodrow Wilson"
author[160] = "Lily Tomlin"
author[161] = "Fred Astaire"
author[162] = "John Kenneth Galbraith";
author[163] = "Mahatma Gandhi"
author[164] = "Mae West"
author[165] = "Jesse Jackson"
author[166] = "John Kenneth Galbraith"
author[167] = "Ernest Hemingway"
author[168] = "Elbert Hubbard"
author[169] = "George S. Patton"
author[170] = "Will Rogers"
author[171] = "Paul Harvey"
author[172] = "Niels Bohr"
author[173] = "Gen. Douglas MacArthur"
author[174] = "Richard Bach"
author[175] = "Mae West"
author[176] = "St. Augustine"
author[177] = "Daniel Boone"
author[178] = "Roger Bannister"
author[179] = "Jack Benny"
author[180] = "Miguel de Cervantes"
author[181] = "Lewis Caroll"
author[182] = "Lucy Larcom";
author[183] = "Julia Childs"
author[184] = "Joy Harjo";
author[185] = "William D. Brown";
author[186] = "Winston Churchill";
author[187] = "Voltaire";
author[188] = "W. Warner Burke";
author[189] = "Marvin Bell";
author[190] = "Betty Reese";