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I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.: Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)
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The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth…Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.: Noela Evans
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.: Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990), in Forbes Magazine
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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.: James M. Barrie (1860 - 1937)
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Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.: Charles F. Kettering (1876 - 1958)
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Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.: Paul Tillich (1886 - 1965)
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A witty saying proves nothing.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
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Time has a wonderful way of showing us what really matters.: Margaret Peters
Architecture is the art of how to waste space.: Philip Johnson (1906 - 2005)
Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.: Izaak Walton (1593 - 1683)
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My friends are my estate.: Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.: Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968), 'Strength to Love,' 1963
Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.: Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
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I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), (attributed)
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You ask me why I do not write something....I think one's feelings waste themselves in words, they ought all to be distilled into actions and into actions which bring results.: Florence Nightingale (1820 - 1910), in Cecil Woodham-Smith, Florence Nightingale, 1951
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For today and its blessings, I owe the world an attitude of gratitude.: Clarence E. Hodges
'Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop backwards into today's, and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow.: J. A. Spender
A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.: Bert Leston Taylor, The So-Called Human Race (1922)
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A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.: Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)
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