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Put yourself on view. This brings your talents to light.: Baltasar Gracian
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I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.: John Cleese (1939 - )
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When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.: 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.: Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
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I've known what it is to be hungry, but I always went right to a restaurant.: 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.: Anna Quindlen (1953 - ), A Short Guide to a Happy Life, 2000
Brains, like hearts, go where they are appreciated.: Robert S. McNamara (1916 - ), former U.S. Secretary of Defense
I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.: Scott Westerfeld, Extras, 2007
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Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.: Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)
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One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.: Nancy Astor (1879 - 1964)
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It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.: Alec Bourne
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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.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Speech in Indianapolis, April 12, 1959
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I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.: 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.: Joe Martin, Porterfield
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Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.: Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
I started concentrating so hard on my vision that I lost sight.: Robin Green, Northern Exposure, Burning Down the House, 1992
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That is one consolation when you are poor—there are so many more things you can imagine about.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.: James Feibleman
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Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.: Elizabeth Bowen (1899 - 1973)
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