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Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.: George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
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If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.: Mary Pickford (1893 - 1979)
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In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind.: Louis Pasteur (1822 - 1895), lecture 1854
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Truth is what stands the test of experience.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
A stitch in time would have confused Einstein.: Unknown
True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.: Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)
The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Pygmalion (1916) preface
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Intuition isn't the enemy, but the ally, of reason.: John Kord Lagemann
Nothing's so apt to undermine your confidence in a product as knowing that the commercial selling it has been approved by the company that make it.: Franklin P. Jones
To establish oneself in the world, one has to do all one can to appear established.: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.: Ralph W. Sockman
When you are not physically starving, you have the luxury to realize psychic and emotional starvation.: Cherrie Moraga
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.: Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)
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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD), Meditations, 200 A.D.
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People don't have to like or support you, so you always have to say thank you.: Ruben Studdard, Seventeen Magazine, September 2003
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.: Clare Booth Luce (1903 - 1987)
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.: Malcolm X (1925 - 1965)
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A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.: P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
What you risk reveals what you value.: Jeanette Winterson
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