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- Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence.
- John Lahr
- People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
- Walter Savage Landor
- Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say that there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.
- Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993)
- Someday is not a day of the week.
- Anonymous
- The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool.
- William McFee
- One of rarest things that a man ever does is to do the best he can.
- Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)
- The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it.
- Franklin P. Jones
- It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past. . .
- Mikhail Gorbachev, (1988)
- If man does his best what else is there?
- George S. Patton (1885 - 1945)
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