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Management by objectives works if you first think through your objectives. Ninety percent of the time you haven't.: Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), Roving Commission: My Early Life, 1930, Chapter 9
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I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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Engineering is an activity other than purely manual and physical work which brings about the utilization of the materials and laws of nature for the good of humanity.: R. E. Hellmund, 1929
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Learn to limit yourself, to content yourself with some definite thing, and some definite work; dare to be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not and to believe in your own individuality.: Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
Wisdom and spirit of the Universe! Thou soul is the eternity of thought! That giv'st to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion! Not in vain By day or star-light thus from by first dawn Of childhood didst thou intertwine for me The passions that build up our human soul, Not with the mean and vulgar works of man, But with high objects, with enduring things, With life and nature, purifying thus The elements of feeling and of thought, And sanctifying, by such discipline Both pain and fear, until we recognize A grandeur in the beatings of the heart.: William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850)
It violates right order whenever capital so employees the working or wage-earning classes as to divert business and economic activity entirely to its own arbitrary will and advantage without, the social character of economic life, social justice, and the common good.: Pope Pius XI (1857 - 1939)
Free from gross passion or of mirth or anger constant in spirit, not swerving with the blood, garnish'd and deck'd in modest compliment, not working with the eye without the ear, and but in purged judgement trusting neither? Such and so finely bolted didst thou seem.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking, best, or a pleasant mixture of them all.: J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973), The Hobbit

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