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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.
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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.
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Larry Page, University of Michigan Commencement Address, 2009
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
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R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983)
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place.
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Steven Wright (1955 - )
The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.
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Henrik Ibsen (1828 - 1906), An Enemy of the People, 1882
Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.
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Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination.
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Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), Les Miserables
An optimist is the human personification of spring.
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Susan J. Bissonette
I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.
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Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), upon being told the cost of an operation
Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.
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Benjamin Haydon
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
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Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)
The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
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Charles Du Bos
I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.
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Augusten Burroughs, Magical Thinking
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
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Daniel J. Boorstin (1914 - )
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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.
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Eric Berne (1910 - 1970)
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
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Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)
A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
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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
The Devil's Dictionary Contributed Quotations

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