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A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.: Jeff Bezos (1964 - )
With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
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I don't really trust a sane person.: Lyle Alzado (1949 - 1992)
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It doesn't make a difference what temperature a room is, it's always room temperature.: Steven Wright (1955 - )
Well, the telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), Interview, Mcsweeneys.net
I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.: George Burns (1896 - 1996)
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.: David Starr Jordan (1851 - 1931), The Philosophy of Despair
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), New York TImes, Apr. 29, 1930
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Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.: Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969), speech at Dartmouth College, June 14, 1953
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No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.: Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919), 'The Strenuous Life,' 1900
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As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.: Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), Moral Sayings, First Century B.C.
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We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!: Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Cicely, 1992
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Conquer thyself, till thou has done this, thou art but a slave; for it is almost as well to be subjected to another's appetite as to thine own.: Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821 - 1890)
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.: Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650)
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Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.: Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
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Women are better at acting then men. Why? Because we have to be. If successfully convincing someone bigger than you are of something he doesn't want to know is a survival skill, this is how women have survived through the millennia.: Meryl Streep (1949 - ), Barnard Commencement Speech, 2010
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There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.: Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?: Harry Shearer
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One is not struck by the truth until prompted quite accidentally by some external event.: Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day, 1989
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It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward.: Lewis Carroll (1832 - 1898)
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