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-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Organisations Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
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-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
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- Ludwig Wittgenstein Organisations To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
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-- Finley Peter Dunne Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
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Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau If you are going through hell, keep going.
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The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
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-- Tom Robbins Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
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-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
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-- Vladimir Nabokov Organisations
He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
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When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
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-- Steven Wright Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
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I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
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-- John Heywood The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Organisations If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
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There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
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