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-- Will Rogers Business and Economy
I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
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- Socrates Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Business and Economy It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
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"If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
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-- Nigerian Proverb Business and Economy
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
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-- F. Scott Fitzgerald America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
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"The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Business and Economy May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
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-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Business and Economy
"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
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-- William James Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
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-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Business and Economy Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
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-- Michel de Montaigne To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Business and Economy
The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
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-- Billy Sunday I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
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-- Jay Leno The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
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-- Oscar Wilde Business and Economy Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
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-- Betty Shabazz "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Business and Economy
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
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-- Anon "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Business and Economy In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
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-- H. L. Mencken Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
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In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Business and Economy A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
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- Antoine de Saint Exupery Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
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