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- Anyone who stops learning is old, whether twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing you can do is keep your mind young.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- I don't understand why people think everything has to have meaning. While painting the Mona Lisa did Leonardo Da Vinci intend for it to have greater meaning than a work of art that he made?
- Devin J. Monroe (1983 - )
- He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
- Thomas P. Gore
- The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- The tendencies of democracies are, in all things, to mediocrity, since the tastes, knowledge and principles of the majority form the tribunal of the appeal.
- James Fenimore Cooper
- We know nothing about motivation. All we can of is write books about it.
- Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)
- Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.
- William F. Buckley
- Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, jr.
- Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.
- Max Beerbohm (1872 - 1956)
- When a man retires and time is no longer a matter of urgent importance, his colleagues generally present him with a watch.
- R. C. Sherriff
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