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- The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.
- Casey Stengel (1890 - 1975)
- Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759
- That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
- William J. H. Boetcker
- My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965), Speech in Detroit, 7 Oct. 1952
- The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
- Dorothy Nevill
- The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.
- David Friedman
- In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.
- Hubert H. Humphrey (1911 - 1978)
- The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
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