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Appreciate people. Be bold in speaking up for what you believe.
Choose to focus on the positive. Don't hold a grudge. Enjoy little things
in life. Forgive more quickly. Give without expecting anything in return.
Hug people. Impart positive values. Juggle time effectively. Keep learning.
Listen before speaking. Make time for people. Never say
never. Open your home and your heart. Put hand phone down. Quiet
down to reflect. Remember to count blessings. Say I love you more often.
Try new things. Utilize belongings with care. Volunteer to help those in
need with charities. Have willpower not to over eat. Express emotions
calmly. Yield to others graciously. Zealously face life.
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I have nothing to declare except my genius.
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Oscar Wilde
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I have put my genius into my life; I have only put my talent into my
works.
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Oscar Wilde
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except
genius.
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Oscar Wilde
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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's
opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
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Oscar Wilde
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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is
all.
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Oscar Wilde
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And, after all, what is fashion? From artistic point of view, it is
usually a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six
months.
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Oscar Wilde
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In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot
answer.
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Oscar Wilde
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The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the
young know everything.
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Oscar Wilde
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Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it.
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Oscar Wilde
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The world has always laughed at its own tragedies, that being the
only way in which it has been able to bear them.
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Oscar Wilde
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One should absorb the color of life, but one should never remember its
details. Details are always vulgar.
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Oscar Wilde
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
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Oscar Wilde
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Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
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Leonardo da Vinci
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Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint.
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Albert Einstein
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What forced to work within a strict framework the imagination is taxed
to its utmost - and will produce its richest ideas.
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T.S. Eliot
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We cannot see our reflection in running water. It is only in still
water that we can see.
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Taoist proverb
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Stay hungry. Stay foolish.
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Steven Jobs
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Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and
I'm not sure about the former.
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Albert Einstein
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Reading, after a certain age,
diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too
much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
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Albert Einstein
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The important thing is not to stop questioning.
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Albert Einstein
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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is
the source of all true art and science.
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Albert Einstein
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It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
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Albert Einstein
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The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist
it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden
to itself.
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Oscar Wilde
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Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's
original virtue. It is through disobedience and rebellion that progress has
been made.
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Oscar Wilde
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Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it
requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.
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Oscar Wilde
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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path
and leave a trail.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five
minutes longer.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's
required.
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Sir Winston Churchill
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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no
loss of enthusiasm.
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Sir Winston Churchill
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's
character, give him power.
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Abraham Lincoln
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If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
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Mark Twain
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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world
and moral courage so rare.
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Mark Twain
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I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
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Confucius
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Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it.
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Confucius
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Respect yourself and others will respect you.
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Confucius
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Men's natures are alike, it is their habits
that carry them far apart.
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Confucius
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Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in getting up every time we do.
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Confucius
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Most of the time I don't have much fun. The rest of the time I don't
have any fun at all.
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Woody Allen
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You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make
you want to live to be a hundred.
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Woody Allen
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Death doesn't really worry me that much, I'm
not frightened about it... I just don't want to be there when it happens.
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Woody Allen
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Nothing in all the world is more dangerous
than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more
I have of it.
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Thomas Jefferson
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To be great is to be misunderstood.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn
as if you were to live forever.
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Gandhi
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought
without accepting it.
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Aristotle
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now
accepted was once eccentric.
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Bertrand Russell
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The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and
not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive
happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.
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Bertrand Russell
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However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the
results.
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Sir Winston Churchill
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We make a living by what we get, we make a
life by what we give.
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Sir Winston Churchill
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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more
important than any one thing.
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Abraham Lincoln
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An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
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Benjamin Franklin
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are
always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
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Bertrand Russell
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Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
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Oscar Wilde
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There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating:
people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely
nothing.
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Oscar Wilde
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Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
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.Oscar Wilde
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To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take
exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
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Oscar Wilde
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When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first
husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife.
Women try their luck; men risk theirs.
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Oscar Wilde
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Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
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Benjamin Franklin
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A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is
shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
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Mark Twain
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In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the
silence of our friends.
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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Socrates
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It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good
ones slept better... while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours
much more.
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Woody Allen
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Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.
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Benjamin Franklin
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I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
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Abraham Lincoln
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The price of greatness is responsibility.
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Sir Winston Churchill
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The time is always right to do the right thing.
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
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Oscar Wilde
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Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
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Oscar Wilde
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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the
artist, not of the sitter.
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Oscar Wilde
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Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of
imagination.
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Oscar Wilde
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Truth is what stands the test of experience.
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Albert Einstein
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Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of
value.
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Albert Einstein
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He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.
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Aristotle
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The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of
comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Any one can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
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Publilius Syrus
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An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made
in a very narrow field.
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Niels Bohr
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The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its
own reason for existing.
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Albert Einstein
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Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak
minds.
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Albert Einstein
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Have more dreams than memories.
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Thomas Friedman
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Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the
middle of difficulty, lies opportunity.
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Albert Einstein
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Imagination is more important than knowledge.
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Albert Einstein
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All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a
philosopher.
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Ambrose Bierce
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
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Oscar Wilde
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The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an
eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was
'committed'.
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Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
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Richard Bach
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It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
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George Bernard Shaw
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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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Seneca
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Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes
off your goal.
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Henry Ford
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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for
it.
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Henry Thoreau
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You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether
what you're doing is work or play.
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Warren Beatty
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Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
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Gail Godwin
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Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only
guarantees equality of opportunities.
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Irving Kristol
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People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes
in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever
anything really meaningful to say.
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Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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The quality of an organization can never exceed the quality of the
minds that make it up.
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Harold McAlindon
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Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and
I'm not sure about the former.
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Albert Einstein
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But,
in practice, there is.
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Jan van de Snepscheut
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Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
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Martin Tupper
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When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
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Goethe
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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.
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George Bernard Shaw
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There are two ways of constructing a software design; one way is to
make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other
way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.
The first method is far more difficult.
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C. Hoare
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The universe is not indifferent to intelligence,
it is actively hostile to it.
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The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
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George Bernard Shaw
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Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
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Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken
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All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed.
Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being
self-evident.
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Arthur Schopenhauer
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Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is
impossible for talent is genius.
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Henri-Frederic Amiel
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A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
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Paul Erdos
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I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
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Xenocrates
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In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be
understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in
poetry, it's the exact opposite.
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Paul Dirac
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I find that the harder I work, the more
luck I seem to have.
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Thomas Jefferson
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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving
wordy evidence of the fact.
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George Eliot
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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him
absolutely no good.
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Samuel Johnson
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My advice to you is get married: if you
find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.
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Socrates
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
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Thomas Edison
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Luck is the residue of design.
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Branch Rickey
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Will Durant
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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the
belief that one's work is terribly important.
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Bertrand Russell
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Alan Kay
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Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
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Sun Tzu
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I am not young enough to know everything.
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Oscar Wilde
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Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed
a scholar.
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Lao Tzu
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Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
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Albert Einstein
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Never mistake motion for action.
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Ernest Hemingway
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A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been
extracted.
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Helen Rowland
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A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.
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General George Patton
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It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
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Niccolo Machiavelli
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Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
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Benjamin Franklin
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There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one
wants, and the other is getting it.
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Oscar Wilde
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
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Wernher Von Braun
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The truth is more important than the facts.
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Frank Lloyd Wright
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The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man
who cannot read them.
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Mark Twain
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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
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Frank Herbert
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The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years
without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in
sheep.
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Alan Patrick Herbert
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I think; therefore I am.
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Rene Descartes
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To err is human, to forgive divine.
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Alexander Pope
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Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me, I
may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
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Albert Camus
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A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy,
education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would
indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrainted by fear of punishment
and hope of reward after death.
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Albert Einstein
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Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking
what nobody has thought.
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Albert von Szent-Gyorgy
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If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is
doing the thinking.
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Lyndon Baines Johnson
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An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the
incomprehensible.
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Alfred A. Knopf
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If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a
conclusion.
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George Bernard Shaw
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Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from
two, it's research.
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Wilson Mizner
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