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To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.: George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
You know, you can't please all the people all the time... and last night, all those people were at my show.: Mitch Hedberg (1968 - 2005)
We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.: Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, 2005
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Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
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The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.: King Edward VIII (1894 - 1972)
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If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.: Henry Ford (1863 - 1947), (attributed)
Please do not be cynical. I hate cynicism. For the record, it’s my least favorite quality. It doesn’t lead anywhere.: Conan O'Brien, Final Tonight Show Speech, 2010
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.: Herman Wouk (1915 - )
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Nature abhors a vacuum, but not as much as cats do.: Lee Entrekin
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I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso.: Rita Rudner
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.: Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818), 1780
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One's real life is often the life that one does not lead.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), L'Envoi, 1882
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.: Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.: Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
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Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not. We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.: John Henry Cardinal Newman (1801 - 1890)
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It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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People find life entirely too time-consuming.: Stanislaw J. Lec (1909 - 1966), "Unkempt Thoughts"
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The multitude of books is making us ignorant.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
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Be wise with speed . A fool at forty is a fool indeed.: Edward Young (1683 - 1765)
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)