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The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.: Al Batt, in National Enquirer
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To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.: Chinese Proverb
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The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), Illiterate Digest (1924), "Helping the Girls with their Income Taxes"
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Never be haughty to the humble; never be humble to the haughty.: Jefferson Davis (1808 - 1889)
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.: Elizabeth Goudge
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.: Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
Whatever you do, do it to the purpose; do it thoroughly, not superficially. Go to the bottom of things. Any thing half done, or half known, is in my mind, neither done nor known at all. Nay, worse, for it often misleads.: Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773)
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself, but raptors are pretty dang scary.: Devin J. Monroe (1983 - )
You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are.: Anna Quindlen (1953 - ), A Short Guide to a Happy Life, 2000
Being a celebrity has taught me to hide, but being an actor has opened my soul.: Meryl Streep (1949 - ), Barnard Commencement Speech, 2010
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In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you.: Frank Wilczek (1951 - )
Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.: Sam Brown, Washington Post, 1977
Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.: Saadi (1184 - 1291)
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We are each responsible for our own life - no other person is or even can be.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
Publishers are just middlemen. That's all. If artists could remember that more often, they'd save themselves a lot of aggrevation.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 4, 08-22-04
Go after a man's weakness, and never, ever, threaten unless you're going to follow through, because if you don't, the next time you won't be taken seriously.: Roy M. Cohn (1927 - 1986)
I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.: e e cummings (1894 - 1962)
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You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), when asked to describe radio
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
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In a networked world, trust is the most important currency.: Eric Schmidt, University of Pennsylvania Commencement Address, 2009
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