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Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you are ready or not, to put this plan into action.: Napoleon Hill
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The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.: David Brinkley (1920 - 2003)
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Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.: Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870)
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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I've arrived at this outermost edge of my life by my own actions. Where I am is thoroughly unacceptable. Therefore, I must stop doing what I've been doing.: Alice Koller, An Unknown Woman, 1982
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Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.: Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Invisible Monsters, 1999
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Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood...Make big plans, aim high in hope and work.: Daniel H. Burnham (1846 - 1912)
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There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.: Martin Gardner (1914 - ), "The Mathematical Magic Show"
To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.: Quentin Crisp
Nobody will ever win the Battle of the Sexes. There's just too much fraternizing with the enemy.: Henry Kissinger (1923 - )
I think we're having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we're always trying to do better.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011)
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.: Unknown, quoted by Jim Horning
Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.: Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
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University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.: Henry Kissinger (1923 - )
It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.: George Iles
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If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.: George C. Marshall (1880 - 1959)
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There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
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I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.: Arthur Hays Sulzberger
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.: Bill Cosby (1937 - )
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