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Leadership is based on inspiration, not domination; on cooperation, not intimidation.
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William Arthur Wood
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
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Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986)
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Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age.
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William Feather (1908 - 1976)
The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
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John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
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Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)
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Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)
Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
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Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
Diplomacy is the art of knowing what not to say.
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Matthew Trump, in Mother Earth News
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
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Lily Tomlin (1939 - )
No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
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W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973)
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You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren.
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William Henry Hudson (1841 - 1922), Afoot in England, 1909
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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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Niels Bohr (1885 - 1962)
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
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Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ), "Profiles of The Future", 1961 (Clarke's third law)
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No one can be right all of the time, but it helps to be right most of the time.
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Robert Half
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
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Ralph W. Sockman
Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.
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Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), Life of Boerhaave
But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
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Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), Letter to Jean Baptiste Le Roy (1789)
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
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Dr. Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734), Gnomologia, 1732
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I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life....Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
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Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818), letter to her sister, Mary Smith Cranch, 1784
It's never just a game when you're winning.
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George Carlin (1937 - 2008)
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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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