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Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.: Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)
I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. In fact, there are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name.: Larry Page, University of Michigan Commencement Address, 2009
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Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.: Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.: R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983)
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You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.: James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place.: Steven Wright (1955 - )
The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.: Henrik Ibsen (1828 - 1906), An Enemy of the People, 1882
Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.: Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
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The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination.: Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), Les Miserables
An optimist is the human personification of spring.: Susan J. Bissonette
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I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), upon being told the cost of an operation
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Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.: Benjamin Haydon
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In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.: Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)
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The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.: Charles Du Bos
I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.: Augusten Burroughs, Magical Thinking
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.: Daniel J. Boorstin (1914 - )
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Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.: Eric Berne (1910 - 1970)
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There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.: Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)
A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)