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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.: Seth Godin, Seth Godin's Blog, 07-28-06
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The intermediate stage between socialism and capitalism is alcoholism.: Norman Brenner
Our children change us... whether they live or not.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991
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Nothing endures but personal qualities.: Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?: Don Marquis (1878 - 1937)
I never trust people's assertions, I always judge of them by their actions.: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say "I want to see the manager.": William S. Burroughs (1914 - 1997)
A house that does not have one worn, comfy chair in it is soulless.: May Sarton
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Maybe coming clean is the ultimate selfish act. A way to absolve yourself by hurting someone who doesn't deserve to be hurt.: Cindy Chupack, Sex and the City, Don't Ask, Don't Tell, 2000
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The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.: Joan Baez (1941 - )
I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Wearing White Clothes speech, 1907
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.: 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.: Richard Rybolt
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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.: Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642)
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.: Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993)
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If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.: 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?': Johann K. Lavater
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Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.: Fletcher Knebel
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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?: John Grogan, Marley and Me, 2005
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Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public.: Edgar Watson Howe (1853 - 1937)