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- The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.
- Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988)
- The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.
- John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
- There will be a time when loud-mouthed, incompetent people seem to be getting the best of you. When that happens, you only have to be patient and wait for them to self destruct. It never fails.
- Richard Rybolt
- Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (1893 - 1986), in Irving Good, The Scientist Speculates (1962)
- I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
- John D. Rockefeller (1839 - 1937)
- People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.
- Howard Newton
- Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.
- John Wayne (1907 - 1979)
- We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), October 26, 1963
- Please write again soon. Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into others lives and I come back to my own with greater contentment.
- Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey, 'A Woman of Independent Means'
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