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To be great is to be misunderstood.: 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.: Alice James
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Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.: The Dhammapada
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The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.: Casey Stengel (1890 - 1975)
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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.: 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.: Warren Buffett (1930 - )
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That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.: A. Whitney Brown
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Many people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away.: 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.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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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.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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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.: John C. Dvorak
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Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.: 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.: Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ), The Exploration of Space, 1951
There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778), Dialogue, XIV, "Le Chapon et la Poularde" (1766)
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Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.: Hyman Rickover (1900 - 1986)
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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.: Emmet Fox
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.: John Ciardi (1916 - 1986)
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If you can’t take responsibility for your own well-being, you will never take control over it.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
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