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Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.
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Seth Godin, Seth Godin's Blog, 07-28-06
The intermediate stage between socialism and capitalism is alcoholism.
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Norman Brenner
Our children change us... whether they live or not.
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Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991
Nothing endures but personal qualities.
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Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
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Don Marquis (1878 - 1937)
I never trust people's assertions, I always judge of them by their actions.
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Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say "I want to see the manager."
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William S. Burroughs (1914 - 1997)
A house that does not have one worn, comfy chair in it is soulless.
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May Sarton
Maybe coming clean is the ultimate selfish act. A way to absolve yourself by hurting someone who doesn't deserve to be hurt.
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Cindy Chupack, Sex and the City, Don't Ask, Don't Tell, 2000
The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.
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Joan Baez (1941 - )
I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Wearing White Clothes speech, 1907
Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
There will be a time when loud-mouthed, incompetent people seem to be getting the best of you. When that happens, you only have to be patient and wait for them to self destruct. It never fails.
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Richard Rybolt
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
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Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642)
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
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Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993)
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
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John Cleese (1939 - )
Never tell evil of a man, if you do not know it for certainty, and if you know it for a certainty, then ask yourself, 'Why should I tell it?'
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Johann K. Lavater
Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
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Fletcher Knebel
We could have bought a small yacht with what we spent on our dog an dall the things he destroyed. Then again, how many yachts wait by the door all day for your return?
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John Grogan, Marley and Me, 2005
Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public.
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Edgar Watson Howe (1853 - 1937)
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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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