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This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.: James Reston (1909 - ), New York Times, June 12 1968
Fools rush in where fools have been before.: Unknown
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The fact is, the old clich%uFFFDs work for us in abstract terms, but they never work out in real life quite the same way. Life is messy; clich%uFFFDs are clean and tidy.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 29, 08-22-04
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.: Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904 - 1991)
Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes.: Mickey Mouse (1928 - )
The fragrance always remains in the hand that gives the rose.: Heda Bejar
Neither should you fret too much about 'writer%uFFFDs block'. If you%uFFFDre looking at a blank piece of paper and nothing comes to you, then go do something else. Writer%uFFFDs block is just a symptom of feeling like you have nothing to say, combined with the rather weird idea that you SHOULD feel the need to say something.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 24, 08-22-04
I am a deeply superficial person.: Andy Warhol (1928 - 1987)
Maybe this world is another planet's hell.: Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
Friendship is being there when someone's feeling low and not being afraid to kick them.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, 11-04-10
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She makes me love her and I like people who make me love them. It saves me so much trouble in making myself love them.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.: Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988)
- More quotations on: [Economics]
A committee can make a decision that is dumber than any of its members.: David Coblitz
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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.: Hal Lancaster, in The Wall Street Journal
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Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.: W. C. Fields (1880 - 1946)
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Enquire not what boils in another's pot.: Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)
Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.: Soren Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855)
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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
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We all have the power to choose how we are going to handle every situation we are faced with throughout our lives. We are in control of the decision we make whether it’s about work, relationships, parenting, or our health.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)