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Rational arguments don't usually work on religious people. Otherwise, there wouldn't be religious people.: Doris Egan, House M.D., The Right Stuff, 2007
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An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), letter to John Melish, January 13, 1813
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The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.: Paul Fix
All existing business models are wrong. Find a new one.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 11, 08-22-04
Don't make use of another's mouth unless it has been lent to you.: Belgian Proverb
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The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.: Jane Wagner
Any government is potentially the worst client in the world you could ever possibly want to have.: Thomas Heatherwick, TED, Building the Seed Cathedral, March 2011
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If the universe is bigger and stranger than I can imagine, it's best to meet it with an empty bladder.: John Scalzi, Old Man's War, 2005
There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.: Robert Lynd (1879 - 1949), The Blue Lion and Other Essays
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Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.: Paul Valery (1871 - 1945), Tel Quel 2 (1943)
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Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Pride and Prejudice, 1811
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.: Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
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He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.: Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)
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There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Following the Equator (1897)
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If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.: Anna Pavlova (1885 - 1931)
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Too many people think only of their own profit. But business opportunity seldom knocks on the door of self-centered people. No customer ever goes to a store merely to please the storekeeper.: Kazuo Inamori
Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.: Bill Vaughan
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Don't confuse being 'soft' with seeing the other guy's point of view.: George Bush (1924 - ), "All the Best, George Bush"
Help others get ahead. You will always stand taller with someone else on your shoulders.: Bob Moawad