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Put yourself on view. This brings your talents to light.
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Baltasar Gracian
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
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John Cleese (1939 - )
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
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P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
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Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
I've known what it is to be hungry, but I always went right to a restaurant.
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Ring Lardner (1885 - 1933)
When you leave college, there are thousands of people out there with the same degree you have; when you get a job, there will be thousands of people doing what you want to do for a living. But you are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life.
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Anna Quindlen (1953 - ), A Short Guide to a Happy Life, 2000
Brains, like hearts, go where they are appreciated.
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Robert S. McNamara (1916 - ), former U.S. Secretary of Defense
I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.
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Scott Westerfeld, Extras, 2007
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
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Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)
One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.
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Nancy Astor (1879 - 1964)
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
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Alec Bourne
The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity.
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John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Speech in Indianapolis, April 12, 1959
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.
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Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against wacking them around a little.
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Joe Martin, Porterfield
Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
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Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
I started concentrating so hard on my vision that I lost sight.
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Robin Green, Northern Exposure, Burning Down the House, 1992
That is one consolation when you are poor—there are so many more things you can imagine about.
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L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.
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James Feibleman
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
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Elizabeth Bowen (1899 - 1973)
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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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