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Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.: Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)
One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "The Apple Cart" (1930), act I
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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before... He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), "Cat's Cradle"
Man is what he eats.: Ludwig Feuerbach
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To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.: Gustave Flaubert (1821 - 1880)
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Mothers may still want their sons to grow up to be President, but according to a famous Gallup poll of some years ago, some 73 percent do not want them to become politicians in the process.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Profiles in Courage, 1956
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Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.: Alvin Toffler
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Victory belongs to the most persevering.: Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)
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If you enjoyed making a thing, and you’re proud of the thing you made, that’s enough. Not everyone is going to like it, and that’s okay.: Wil Wheaton, WIL WHATON dot NET, 12-07-13
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You can’t make a life-altering decision for someone else and expect it to stick.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.: Robert Morley
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Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories - those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.: Russell Baker (1925 - )
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.: Jacopo Sannazaro
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
Adventure is just bad planning.: Roald Amundsen (1872 - 1928)
The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.: Gore Vidal (1925 - )
We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands upon himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.: Jose Ortega y Gasset (1883 - 1955)
We begin to see that the completion of an important project has every right to be dignified by a natural grieving process. Something that required the best of you has ended. You will miss it.: Anne Wilson Schaef
Energy is eternal delight.: William Blake (1757 - 1827)
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