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- Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963), Reader's Digest, March 1956
- We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage, and resolution were most important, into that more difficult time when it is a man's duty to understand his world rather than to simply fight for it.
- Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961), 1946
- When a true genius appears in this world you may know him by this sign, that the dines are all in confederacy against him.
- Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745)
- Folks who never do more than their paid for, never get paid for any more than they do.
- Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
- I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident
- Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)
- A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working.
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)
- There has never been but one question in all civilization-how to keep a few men from saying to many men: You work and earn bread and we will eat it.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
- We believe that if men have the talent to invent need machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
- We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many people who work without living.
- Charles Reynolds Brown
- Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
- John Adams (1735 - 1826)
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