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The only way to have a friend is to be one.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.: David Assael, Northern Exposure, Our Tribe, 1992
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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.: Quentin Crisp
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.: Jean Kerr
It gets a lot easier to deal with life's curveballs when you're not hiding under layers of fat.: Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009
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Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), "Self-Reliance", 1841
Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.: Herb Caen
If you think something is boring, try doing it for two minutes. If you still think it's boring, try it for four. If you still think it's boring, try it for eight, then sixteen, then thirty-two, and so on and so forth. Soon enough you'll find that it's really not boring at all.: John Cage (1912 - 1992)
Perfection is a road, not a destination. Every time I live, I get an education.: Burk Hudson
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So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.: Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)
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A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.: Jeff Bezos (1964 - )
To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
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Our lives teach us who we are.: Salman Rushdie (1947 - )
Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.: W. C. Fields (1880 - 1946)
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.: Marie Curie (1867 - 1934)
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It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.: Konrad Lorenz (1903 - 1989)
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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself, but raptors are pretty dang scary.: Devin J. Monroe (1983 - )
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things.: Lech Walesa (1943 - )