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- People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they've done.
- Cullen Hightower
- It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it.
- Rebecca Johnson, in 'Vogue'
- Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.
- Larry McMurtry (1936 - ), 'Lonesome Dove'
- It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.
- Garry Marshall, 'Wake Me When It's Funny'
- Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 'Gift From the Sea'
- Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
- Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)
- Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.
- John Wanamaker (1838 - 1922), (attributed)
- There's nothing that keeps its youth,
So far as I know, but a tree and truth. - Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894), The Deacon's Masterpiece, 1858
- Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969), September 11, 1956
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