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To be great is to be misunderstood.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), An Essay on Self-Reliance
One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.
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Alice James
Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.
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The Dhammapada
The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.
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Casey Stengel (1890 - 1975)
That is not what Geek means to me. We are more than the hobbies that we do or the things that we like. To me, Geek means an outsider, a rebel, a dreamer, a creator, a fighter. It's a person who dares to love something that isn't conventional.
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Felicia Day, Geek and Sundry, State of the Sundry, 03-25-13
In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.
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Warren Buffett (1930 - )
That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.
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A. Whitney Brown
Many people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away.
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
I started thinking about little kids putting a cylindrical peg through a circular hole, and how they do it over and over again for months when they figure it out, and how basketball was basically just a slightly more aerobic version of that same exercise.
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John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
There must be a limit to the mistakes one person can make, and when I get to the end of them, then I'll be through with them. That's a very comforting thought.
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L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear.
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John C. Dvorak
Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
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Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
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Paul Tillich (1886 - 1965)
If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run - and often in the short one - the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.
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Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ), The Exploration of Space, 1951
There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts.
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Voltaire (1694 - 1778), Dialogue, XIV, "Le Chapon et la Poularde" (1766)
Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.
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Hyman Rickover (1900 - 1986)
There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer; no disease that enough love will not heal; no door that enough love will not open.
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Emmet Fox
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
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John Ciardi (1916 - 1986)
If you can’t take responsibility for your own well-being, you will never take control over it.
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Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
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Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
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