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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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Gertrude Stein (1874 - 1946)
The secret to success in life is known only to those who have not succeeded.
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John Churton Collins
With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bended arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of these things. Riches and honors acquired by unrighteousness are to me as a floating cloud.
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Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
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Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
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Zig Ziglar, "Secrets of Closing the Sale", 1984
A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.
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W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
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Bill Hoest
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
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George Steiner
Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not. We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.
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John Henry Cardinal Newman (1801 - 1890)
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.
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Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 5
When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him.
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John Billings(Henry Wheeler Shaw)
Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.
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David Rockefeller (1915 - )
There is no monument dedicated to the memory of a committee.
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Lester J. Pourciau
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
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Eve Babitz
Trade your secrets and become who you are.
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Frank Warren, PostSecret, 09-06-08
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
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Robert Half
Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth!
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Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls.
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M. Cartmill
The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.
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Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993)
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
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Ralph Hodgson, on ESP
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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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