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- You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.
- Jurgen Schrempp, Former CEO of DaimlerChrysler
- Why is it OK to love without a reason, but anger requires justification?
- R. Stevens, Diesel Sweeties, 08-08-2006
- I still believe that at any time the no-talent police will come and arrest me.
- Mike Myers
- Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
- Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834 - 1892)
- Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it.
- Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962)
- If thou desire to purchase honor with thy wealth, consider first how that wealth became thine; if thy labor got it, let thy wisdom keep it; if oppression found it, let repentance restore it; if thy parent left it, let thy virtues deserve it; so shall thy honor be safer, better and cheaper.
- Francis Quarles (1592 - 1644)
- That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
- You can't surprise a man with a dog.
- Cindy Chupack, Sex and the City, Don't Ask, Don't Tell, 2000
- Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run.
- Margaret Mead (1901 - 1978)
- If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one would remain in the ranks.
- Frederick The Great (1712 - 1786)
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