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Think, or be damned.
Author: Bryan Penton
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Genius is patience.
Author: Buffon
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It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.
Author: Clive James
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Never touch a butterfly's wing with your finger.
Author: Colette
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It's only words...unless they're true.
Author: David Mamet
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I see music as the augmentation of a split second of time.
Author: Erin Cleary
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I am the emperor, and I want dumplings.
Author: Ferdinand I
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He who survives will see the outcome.
Author: French Proverb
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There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them.
Author: Heisenberg
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Where would we be without salt?
Author: James A. Beard
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Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. - The Oracle.
Author: Baltasar Gracian
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured. - Agricola.
Author: Tacitus
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The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
Author: Xenophon
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Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people. - Broken Vessels, 1991.
Author: André Dubus
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The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder. - Notes on Doctrinal and Spiritual Subjects.
Author: Frederick W. Faber
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The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.
Author: Ruth Benedict
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Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
Author: William Jennings Bryan
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He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.
Author: Johann Von Schiller
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The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen and the far-spread magazine, rules the country. - Memorial service for Justice Brandeis, December 21, 1942.
Author: Learned Hand
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You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on. - Mr. Citizen, 1960.
Author: Harry S Truman
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But then peace, peace! I am so mistrustful of it: so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness and giving in. - Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence.
Author: D. H. Lawrence
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There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.
Author: Roger Caras
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If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum. - "In the Nature of the Physical World", 1928.
Author: Sir Arthur Eddington
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We never know the worth of water 'til the well is dry.
Author: English Proverb
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Albert Einstein I never came upon any of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking. W. Alton Jones -Robert Frost.
Author: Robert Frost
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If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent.
Author: Stew Leonard
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Watteau is no less an artist for having painted a fascia board while Sainsbury's is no less effective a business for producing advertisements which entertain and educate instead of condescending and exploiting.
Author: Stephen Bayley
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People differ not only in their ability to do but also in their 'will to do'.
Author: Paul Hersey
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If you ever have to support a flagging conversation, introduce the topic of eating.
Author: Leigh Hunt
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There is nothing that exasperates people more than a display of superior ability or brilliance in conversation. They seem pleased at the time, but their envy makes them curse the conversationalist in their heart.
Author: Johnson
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It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.
Author: William J. Durant
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Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.
Author: Queen's Mother Elizabeth
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Man shapes himself through decision that shape his environment.
Author: Rene Dubos
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Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it.
Author: Rex Harrison
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Their kitchen is their shrine, the cook their priest, the table their altar, and their belly their god.
Author: Charles Buck
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He that is conscious of guilt cannot bear the innocence of others: So they will try to reduce all others to their own level.
Author: Charles James Fox
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C is for cookie, it's good enough for me; oh cookie cookie cookie starts with C.
Author: Rodney Dangerfield
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Sometimes democracy must be bathed in blood.
Author: Augusto Pinochet
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The paper burns, but the words fly away.
Author: Ben Joseph Akiba
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The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.
Author: Clarence Darrow
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Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.
Author: George S. Patton
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Winged words.
Author: Homer
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Thank God, I have done my duty.
Author: Horatio, Viscount Nelson
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They eat the dainty food of gamous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman's octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach. - The Italians, 1964.
Author: Luigi Barzini
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It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better. - "A Word to the Wizards".
Author: Marya Mannes
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There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from.
Author: Elizabeth Kubler-ross
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Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence.
Author: Henrik Tikkanen
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Telling lies does not work in advertising.
Author: Tim Bell
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'Be comfortable with who you are', reads the headline on the Hush Puppies poster. Are they mad? If people were comfortable with who they were, they'd never buy any products except the ones they needed, and then where would the advertising industry be?.
Author: Mark Edwards
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Think as you work, for in the final analysis, your worth to your company comes not only in solving problems, but also in anticipating them.
Author: Harold Wallace Ross
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