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Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
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-- Racine Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
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-- Frank W. Woolworth Business and Economy My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
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This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
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-- Al Capp Business and Economy
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
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-- Woody Allen Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
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-- Pablo Picasso Business and Economy One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
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-- Bertrand Russell The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
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-- Woody Allen Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Business and Economy
Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
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-- H. L. Mencken Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
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-- George Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
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-- George Bernard Shaw Business and Economy I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
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The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
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-- Peter F. Drucker Business and Economy Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Business and Economy
Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
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-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Business and Economy Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Business and Economy It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
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-- Fran Lebowitz Business and Economy
"Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
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-- W. Somerset Maugham The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
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"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
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whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Business and Economy
"You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Business and Economy Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
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