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- He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities.
- Robertson Davies, "Fifth Business"
- The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.
- Robertson Davies, "A Voice from the Attic", 1960
- Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.
- Leo Rosten (1908 - )
- There's a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like-thinking individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause.
- P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - ), Parliament of Whores (1991)
- There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
- Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)
- Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
- Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)
- We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
- Bill Vaughan
- It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930), (Sherlock Holmes)
- There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), "On Reading and Writing"
- He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", Chapter 2
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