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Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
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Edgar Bergen (1903 - 1978), (Charlie McCarthy)
Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
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Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)
The grass is always greener once you don't have to mow a lawn anymore.
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Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, Young Hope, 04-26-13
The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.
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Dee Hock
The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
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Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
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Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778), Emile, 1762
Never believe anything until it has been officially denied.
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Claud Cockburn (1904 - 1981)
I didn't go to college at all, any college, and I'm not saying you wasted your time or money, but look at me, I'm a huge celebrity.
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Ellen DeGeneres, Tulane Commencement Speech, 2009
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
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George Washington (1732 - 1799)
We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
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R. D. Laing
I am never afraid of what I know.
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Anna Sewell (1820 - 1878)
It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.
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Garry Marshall, 'Wake Me When It's Funny'
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
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Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!
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Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
If you have the creative urge, it isn't going to go away. But sometimes it takes a while before you accept the fact.
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Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 30, 08-22-04
All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.
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Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968), 'Strength to Love,' 1963
In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), "Self Reliance"
It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.
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Konrad Lorenz (1903 - 1989)
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
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Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
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John Tudor
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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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