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Criminal: A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.: Howard Scott (1926 - )
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Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student.: George Iles
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Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.: George Herbert (1593 - 1633)
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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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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To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
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Age is mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.: Satchel Paige (1906 - 1982)
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Mrs. Warren's Profession" (1893) act II
Be more splendid, more extraordinary. Use every moment to fill yourself up.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, February 2003
Learn to value yourself, which means: to fight for your happiness.: Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982)
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), speech in Washington D.C., 1865
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As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.: Robert Fulghum (1937 - ), It Was on Fire When I Lay Down on It
Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now!: Michael Landon (1936 - 1991)
Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.: Niels Bohr (1885 - 1962), to a young physicist
To get the best out of a man go to what is best in him.: Daniel Considine
It doesn't make a difference what temperature a room is, it's always room temperature.: Steven Wright (1955 - )
Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.: Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999
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Buy the ticket take the Ride: Hunter S. Thompson (1939 - 2005), Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.: Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997)
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