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Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy.: Charles Peters
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If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.: Margaret Fuller (1810 - 1850)
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Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.: John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
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Do not consider painful what is good for you.: Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC)
Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.: William Safire (1929 - )
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The deeper sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain.: Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.: Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
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To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
All these years I've been feeling like I was growing into myself. Finally, I feel grown.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, What I Know For Sure, January 2004
An idea isn't worth that much. It's the execution of the idea that has value. If you can't convince one other person that this is something to devote your life to, then it's not worth it.: Joel Spolsky, Sink or Swim, SXSW 2006
It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.: Henry Fielding (1707 - 1754)
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If you don't risk anything you risk even more.: Erica Jong
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Spare no expense to save money on this one.: Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.: Lillian Hellman (1905 - 1984), An Unfinished Woman, 1969
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.: Jeanne Moreau
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Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.: George S. Patton (1885 - 1945)
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No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session.: Judge Gideon J. Tucker
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?: Harry Shearer
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A girl phoned me the other day and said "Come on over, there's nobody home." I went over. Nobody was home.: Rodney Dangerfield (1921 - 2004)