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- Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.
- Denis Diderot (1713 - 1784)
- By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.
- W. Edwards Deming (1900 - 1993)
- The best helping hand that you will ever receive is the one at the end of your own arm.
- Fred Dehner
- Winning is nice if you don't lose your integrity in the process.
- Arnold Horshak
- The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
- We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
- Anne Swetchine
- There is timing in the whole life of the warrior, in his thriving and declining, in his harmony and discord. Similarly, there is timing in the Way of the merchant, in the rise and fall of capital. All things entail rising and falling timing. You must be able to discern this.
- Miyamoto Musashi
- Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority--literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.
- Ignazio Silone, The God That Failed (1950)
- It is impossible to design a system so perfect that no one needs to be good.
- T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965)
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