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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.: William S. Burroughs (1914 - 1997)
The very best staff plans are those which give clear margins of error to allow for those days when an employee is ill or for one reason or another below par.: Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day, 1989
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A girl phoned me the other day and said "Come on over, there's nobody home." I went over. Nobody was home.: Rodney Dangerfield (1921 - 2004)
Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.: Stanislaw Lem (1921 - 2006)
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Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968), My Religion, 1927
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When you don't share your problems, you resent hearing the problems of other people.: Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Invisible Monsters, 1999
Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903), Maxims for Revolutionists
Let your light shine. Shine within you so that it can shine on someone else. Let your light shine.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, January 2004
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Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.: Denis Diderot (1713 - 1784)
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.: Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)
Variety is the soul of pleasure.: Aphra Behn
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.: Richard Bach
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Food is our common ground, a universal experience.: James Beard
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To grow mature is to separate more distinctly, to connect more closely.: Hugo Von Hofmannsthal (1874 - 1929)
However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
A man can do all things if he but wills them.: Leon Battista Alberti (1404 - 1472)
Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think that's how dogs spend their lives.: Sue Murphy
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The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.: Chinese Proverb
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The intermediate stage between socialism and capitalism is alcoholism.: Norman Brenner