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Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great.: John L. Motley (1814 - 1877)
Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance.: M. C. Richards
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A dog is the greatest gift a parent can give a child. OK, a good education, then a dog.: John Grogan, An Interview with John Grogan, 2008
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Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo.: Robert Byrne
It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.: Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950)
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If you're creative, if you can think independently, if you can articulate passion, if you can override the fear of being wrong, then your company needs you now more than it ever did. And now your company can no longer afford to pretend that isn't the case.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 8, 08-22-04
I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.: E. V. Lucas
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.: Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727), Letter to Robert Hooke, February 5, 1675
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.: Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1879 - 1962), "Discovery", 1964
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The business of America is not business. Neither is it war. The business of America is justice and securing the blessings of liberty.: George F. Will (1941 - )
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The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.: Sydney J. Harris
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When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
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Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817)
The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it.: Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
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The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.: David Friedman
My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything - even if you have no clue what you're doing.: Jessica Alba
On a lazy Saturday morning when you're lying in bed, drifting in and out of sleep, there is a space where fantasy and reality become one. Are you awake, or are you dreaming? You see people and things; some are familiar; some are strange. You talk, you feel, but you move without walking; you fly without wings. Your mind and your body exist, but on separate planes. Time stands still. For me, this is the feeling I have when ideas come.: Lynn Johnston (1947 - ), Lynn on Ideas
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