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- The world only goes round by misunderstanding.
- Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867)
- Language is the source of misunderstandings.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 - 1944)
- Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
- Brooks Atkinson (1894 - 1984), Once Around the Sun, 1951
- Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.
- Bill Gates (1955 - ), Time Magazine, January 13, 1996
- The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing.
- Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
- Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.
- Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
- You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
- Colette (1873 - 1954), in New York World-Telegram and Sun, 1961
- Out of the strain of the Doing,
Into the peace of the Done. - Julia Louise Woodruff, 'Harvest Home,' Sunday at Home, 1910
- Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at de sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
- Zora Neale Hurston (1901 - 1960), Dust Tracks on a Road, 1942
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