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- No. Men should die for lies. But the truth is too precious to die for.
- Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
- That seems to point up a significant difference between Europeans and Americans. A European says: "I can't understand this, what's wrong with me?" An American says: "I can't understand this, what's wrong with him?"
- Terry Pratchett
- If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever. Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is a law, and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.
- Dan Millman, The Way of the Peaceful Warrior
- Moderation? It's mediocrity, fear, and confusion in disguise. It's the devil's dilemma. It's neither doing nor not doing. It's the wobbling compromise that makes no one happy. Moderation is for the bland, the apologetic, for the fence-sitters of the world afraid to take a stand. It's for those afraid to laugh or cry, for those afraid to live or die. Moderation...is lukewarm tea, the devil's own brew.
- Dan Millman, The Way of the Peaceful Warrior
- All of us have in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea -- whether it is to sail or to watch it -- we are going back from whence we came.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Speech given at Newport at the dinner before the America's Cup Races, September 1962
- ...people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.
- J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince
- The U.S. Constitution is less than a quarter the length of the owner's manual for a 1998 Toyota Camry, and yet it has managed to keep 300 million of the world's most unruly, passionate and energetic people safe, prosperous and free.
- P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
- Words are the litmus paper of the minds. If you find yourself in the power of someone who will use the word "commence" in cold blood, go somewhere else very quickly. But if they say "Enter", don't stop to pack.
- Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
- Equal participants doing similar things will generate lots of new ideas.
- Tom McMakin, CEO, Great Harvest
- You have to let people challenge your ideas.
- Tom Kasten, VP, Levi Strauss and Co.
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