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- Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art of all.
- Andy Warhol (1928 - 1987)
- Nature is not cruel, pitiless, indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous -- indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose.
- Richard Dawkins (1941 - )
- It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), Roving Commission: My Early Life, 1930, Chapter 9
- Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Letters and Social Aims (Quotation and Originality)
- A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue, but moderation in principle is always a vice.
- Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809), "The Rights of Man", 1792
- I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
- Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), Speech, 1941, Harrow School
- Engineering is an activity other than purely manual and physical work which brings about the utilization of the materials and laws of nature for the good of humanity.
- R. E. Hellmund, 1929
- I feel sorry for people who do not drink. When they wake up in the morning it is as good as they are going to feel all day.
- Frank Sinatra (1915 - 1998), Quoted in The Sydney Morning Herald
- . . . .When I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone, and of good cheer - say traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep - it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best, and most abundantly. Whence and how they come, I know not, nor can I force them...
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)
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