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Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.: Marston Bates
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.: Ramsay Clark
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You can't choose the ways in which you'll be tested.: Robert J. Sawyer (1960 - ), "Calculating God", 2000
Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.: Russell Baker (1925 - )
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If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.: Oriental Proverb
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The way to procure insults is to submit to them: a man meets with no more respect than he exacts.: William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)
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Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read.: Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993), quoted in Linda Botts, "Loose Talk" (1980)
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The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.: Dorothy Nevill
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A husband is like a fire, he goes out when unattended.: Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)
Fashion is something that goes in one year and out the other.: Unknown
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I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
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Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903), Maxims for Revolutionists
It's better to be a company than to work for a company.: Jim Coudal, Keynote Speech, SXSW 2006
The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.: George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
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Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Mysticism and Logic (1917) ch. 4
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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
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If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues' initials on 'em, and pass them along. When in doubt, route.: Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990)
Mach-S, the speed at which stress can't keep up, is simply forward motion. But it has to be self- propelled. Note that people in cars are still stressed.: Jef Mallett, Frazz, 08-26-05
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The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)