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The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.: John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.: Tryon Edwards (1809 - 1894)
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Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.: John Wanamaker (1838 - 1922)
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Sceptical Essays (1928), "Dreams and Facts"
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy: Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)
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There's an old saying that if you come back to the place where you became a man, you will remember all those things you need to be happy... That saying never made sense to me, but I thought it was worth a try.: Henry Bromel, Northern Exposure, The Big Kiss, 1991
In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.: Pliny the Elder (23 AD - 79 AD)
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What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists?: Woody Allen (1935 - ), "Without Feathers"
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I don't like green Christmases. They're not green—they're just nasty faded browns and grays.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Painted Veil, 1925
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Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you.: Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773)
One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world. Sentiment is a disgrace, instead of an ornament, unless it lead us to good actions.: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
[Spring is] a true reconstructionist.: Henry Timrod
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In a country as big as the United States, you can find fifty examples of anything.: Jeffery F. Chamberlain
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A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.: George Iles
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Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.: J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
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What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.: Albert Pine
I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.: Alanis Morissette (1974 - ), Reader's Digest, March 2000
I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.: John Constable (1776 - 1837)
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This is patently absurd; but whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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