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- There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.
- Henry Ford (1863 - 1947)
- If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a footrule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
- Margaret Thatcher (1925 - )
- Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
- John Steinbeck (1902 - 1968)
- There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others, however humble.
- Washington Irving (1783 - 1859)
- Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
- Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)
- A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
- Jean Paul Richter (1763 - 1825)
- My tongue will tell the anger of mine heart, Or else my heart, concealing it, will break.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Taming of the Shrew
- It is a truth universally acknowledged that as soon as one part of your life starts looking up, another falls to pieces.
- Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones Diary
- A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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