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There used to be a real me, but I had it surgically removed.: Peter Sellers (1925 - 1980)
Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds - all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.: Edward Everett Hale (1822 - 1909)
Trust one who has gone through it.: Virgil (70 BC - 19 BC), The Aeneid
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People want economy and they will pay any price to get it.: Lee Iacocca (1924 - )
The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust.: Henry L. Stimson (1867 - 1950)
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It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.: Alec Bourne
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As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.: Dick Cavett (1936 - )
I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.: J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973), The Fellowship of the Ring
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.: William Gibson (1948 - )
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Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart, to do at least one worthy thing which you have long postponed.: Grenville Kleiser
The first and great commandment is: Don't let them scare you.: Elmer Davis (1890 - 1958)
Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth!: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.: Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933)
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One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
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Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), (attributed)
He not busy being born is busy dying.: Bob Dylan (1941 - )
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The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.: Brooks Atkinson (1894 - 1984), Once Around the Sun, 1951
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It's always difficult to make conversation with a drunk, and there's no denying it, the sober are at a disadvantage with him.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
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Getting there isn't half the fun - it's all the fun.: Robert Townsend
Ever tried? Ever failed? No Matter, try again, fail again, Fail better.: Samuel Beckett (1906 - 1989)