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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
Never answer a critic, unless he's right.: Bernard M. Baruch (1870 - 1965)
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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Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.: J. Bartlett Brebner
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I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.: Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 - 1951)
Working in the garden...gives me a profound feeling of inner peace.: Ruth Stout
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The more you chase money, the harder it is to catch it.: Mike Tatum, Cashing In or Selling Out, SXSW 2006
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If the point is sharp, and the arrow is swift, it can pierce through the dust no matter how thick.: Bob Dylan (1941 - )
The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.: Jawaharlal Nehru (1889 - 1964)
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Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
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The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces.: Maureen Murphy
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The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.: Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional.: Unknown
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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.: Christine Bovee
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Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.: George Burns (1896 - 1996)
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.: Evan Esar (1899 - 1995), Esar's Comic Dictionary
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You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.: John Ciardi (1916 - 1986)
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In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.: Meg Cabot, The Boy Next Door, 2002
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The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in 70 or 80 years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all.: Doris Lessing, O Magazine, October 2003
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