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An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.: Charles F. Kettering (1876 - 1958)
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The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling.: Walter Goodman
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Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.: Jawaharlal Nehru (1889 - 1964)
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What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?: Robert Browning (1812 - 1889)
We lie the loudest when we lie to ourselves.: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.: Whoopi Goldberg
Lies are like children. If you don't nurture them, they'll never be useful later.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, 07-26-2012
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Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive.: Eric A. Burns, Gossamer Commons, 08-12-05
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Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.: Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)
People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.: George Orwell (1903 - 1950), "Politics and the English Language", 1946
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Most people would rather be certain they're miserable than risk being happy.: Robert Anthony
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Unpopular Essays (1950), "Outline of Intellectual Rubbish"
My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them.: Penn Jillette (1955 - ), in a Compuserve chat
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It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.: Robert H. Goddard (1882 - 1945)
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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected.: Marquis de Vauvenargues
Never believe anything until it has been officially denied.: Claud Cockburn (1904 - 1981)
Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it.: Moses Hadas (1900 - 1966)
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A problem is a chance for you to do your best.: Duke Ellington (1899 - 1974)