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- The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.
- George Jessel
- Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
- The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.
- Bret Harte (1836 - 1902)
- Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.
- Gene Fowler
- The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
- Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
- People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
- A. J. Liebling (1904 - 1963)
- A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained.
- Edward R. Murrow (1908 - 1965)
- A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 10
- Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
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