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2116
The news story said someone had overcome a fatal disease. WOW!

2117
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act but a habit.

2118
If you cut Alaska in half, Texas would become the third largest state.

2119
We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

2120
The future is like the present, only longer.

2121
If you can't beat your computer at chess, try kickboxing.

2122
Intel has announced its next chip: the Repentium.

2123
Pentiums melt in your PC, not in your hand.

2124
Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.

2125
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.

2126
When you are content to be simply yourself and don't
compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

2127
If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art
or music, then in that respect you can call me that ... I believe
in what I do, and I'll say it.

2128
Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got
where he is had to begin where he was.

2129
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.
Live the life you have imagined.

2130
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want
of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure
men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.

2131
Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls
and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again,
though it contradict every thing you said to-day.

2132
In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
"The Peter Principle"

2133
Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says
nothing. Nobody listens -- and then everybody disagrees.

2134
He who angers you conquers you.

2135
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger
than the causes of it.

2136
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of
their objects than love.

2137
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape
a hundred days of sorrow.

2138
The world needs anger. The world often continues to
allow evil because it isn't angry enough.

2139
One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of
getting more and more angry to the end.

2140
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned,
Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.

2141
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.

2142
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may get to
be a boss and work twelve hours a day.

2143
The lord is wonderfully good to those who wait for him and seek him.
N.B.: From this quote is derived the proverb, "Good things come to those who wait."

2144
Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.

2145
Our patience will achieve more than our force.

2146
Beware the fury of a patient man.

2147
All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.

2148
Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself,
though even there he will have to put up with himself.

2149
Patience makes lighter what sorrow may not heal.

2150
Sometimes it pays to stay in bed in Monday, rather than spending
the rest of the week debuging Monday's code.

2151
It's easy to cry 'bug' when the truth is that you've got a complex
system and sometimes it takes a while to get all the components to co-exist
peacefully.

2152
Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.

2153
Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

2154
Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train.
Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going
sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

2155
A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D.
Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B.

2156
The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost.

2157
Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.

2158
Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their
sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

2159
Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love
but only with distaste, it is better tha you should leave your
work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those
who work with joy.

2160
The Devil finds work for idle hands.

2161
Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

2162
There is a vast world of work out there in this country, where
at least 111 million people are employed in this country alone--many
of whom are bored outof their minds. All day long. Not for nothing is
their motto TGIF -- "Thank God It's Friday." They live for
the weekends, when they can go do what they really want to do.

2163
Debugging is anticipated with distaste, performed with reluctance,
and bragged about forever.

2164
Wisdom begins in wonder.

2165
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be
governed, when that little wisdom is its own.

2166
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

2167
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom:
the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

2168
Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly,
but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

2169
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life,
the clearer we should see through it.

2170
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

2171
Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.

2172
He that always gives way to others will end in having no
principles of his own.

2173
There is someone willing to argue about any point.

2174
Sudden money is going from zero to two hundred dollars a week.
The rest doesn't count.

2175
In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement,
psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common
sense and the poets have longknown -- that the essence of money
is in its absolute worthlessness.

2176
Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.

2177
Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.

2178
The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

2179
The entire essence of America is the hope to first make money --
then make money with money --
then make lots of money with lots of money.

2180
All currency is neurotic currency.

2181
So you think that money is the root of all evil.
Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?

2182
Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand
until it finally disappears.

2183
There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.

2184
Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.

2185
Every man has his follies --
and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.

2186
There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are
blessings given to us to learn from.

2187
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

2188
No one is listening until you make a mistake.

2189
Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets,
trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything
to git attention we do, except walk?

2190
Perhaps even these things, one day, will be pleasing to remember.

2191
As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven,
it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.

2192
A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more
than a dictionary would be called a treatise.

2193
Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes;
the most beautiful prizes slip through it.

2194
We do not know the true value of our moments until they
have undergone the test of memory.

2195
Some memories are realities, and are better than anything
that can ever happen to one again.

2196
I think it is all a matter of love:
the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

2197
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were
worrying about one year ago today.

2198
They may forget what you said, but they will never
forget how you made them feel.

2199
The great leaders are like the best conductors -
they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.

2200
The leader who exercises power with honor will work
from the inside out, starting with himself.

2201
Money is the most egalitarian force in society.
It confers power on whoever holds it.

2202
Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.

2203
Money, the root of all evil...but the cure for all sadness.

2204
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

2205
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.

2206
As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense
of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.

2207
The mysterious is always attractive. People will always follow a vail.

2208
Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous.
When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.

2209
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

2210
Nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as real strength.

2211
I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness
is to be expected only from the strong.

2212
We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness
needs support. Strength needs it far more.

2213
I felt invincible. My strength was that of a giant.
God was certainly standing by me. I smashed five saloons
with rocks before I ever took a hatchet.

2214
For many are called, but few are chosen.

2215
Everything that can be invented, has been invented.

2216
Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not
take Towards the door we never opened Into the rose-garden. My
words echo Thus, in your mind.

2217
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young
to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.

2218
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where
it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

2219
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

2220
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

2221
Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort
of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other,
and both together make up one whole.

2222
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.

2223
I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant,
and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.

2224
Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress
requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.

2225
The ends must justify the means.

2226
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

2227
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

2228
The cure for all ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows and the
crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love.' It is the
divine vitality that everywhereproduces and restores life.

2229
Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends
and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

2230
We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

2231
Do all things with love.

2232
Where there is love there is life.

2233
Treasure the love you receive above all.
It will survive long after your good health has vanished.

2234
Absence is to love what wind is to fire;
it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.

2235
Nunc scio quit sit amor.
Lat., Now I know what love is.

2236
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart.
It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

2237
Love builds bridges where there are none.

2238
All mankind love a lover.

2239
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength;
loving someone deeply gives you courage.

2240
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

2241
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does.
Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

2242
Love means never having to say you're sorry.

2243
In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.

2244
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life
are already three parts dead.

2245
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

2246
Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.'
Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'

2247
We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists...
in the loved one, perfection.

2248
There is only one terminal dignity -- love.

2249
The art of love ... is largely the art of persistence.

2250
The best proof of love is trust.

2251
Real riches are the riches possessed inside.

2252
What difference does it make how much you have?
What you do not have amounts to much more.

2253
The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be
worth if you lost all your money.

2254
There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery.
You can't do any business from there.

2255
If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.

2256
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.

2257
The rich are different from you and me because they have more credit.

2258
Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.

2259
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.

2260
I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

2261
The world at large does not judge us by who we are and what we know; it judges us by what we have.

2262
My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants.

2263
Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.

2264
Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.

2265
A fool and his money are soon parted.

2266
I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it.

2267
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can let alone.

2268
It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.

2269
Well, I'm not a crook.

2270
I hereby resign this office of president of the United States.

2271
A man is not finished when he's defeated; he's finished when he quits.

2272
Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.

2273
I have impeached myself by resigning.

2274
Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.

2275
Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.

2276
We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.

2277
I have not yet begun to fight!

2278
People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

2279
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

2280
When the president does it, that means it is not illegal.

2281
I can take it... The tougher it gets, the cooler I get...

2282
You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job.

2283
I gave 'em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I'd have done the same thing.

2284
I can see clearly now ... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate...

2285
As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.

2286
The President seems to extend executive privilege way out past the atmosphere. What he says is executive privilege is nothing but executive poppycock.

2287
We are all in it together. This is a war. We take a few shots and it will be over. We will give them a few shots and it will be over.

2288
I've analyzed the best I can ... and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.

2289
This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but to come to the aid of their country.

2290
When you're a lawyer, you expect your client to lie to you, but not when he is the president.

2291
The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office.

2292
I argue very well.
Ask any of my remaining friends.
I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent.
People know this, and steer clear of me at parties.
Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me.

2293
I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.

2294
The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you.

2295
The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.

2296
Up men to your posts! Don't forget today that you are from old Virginia.

2297
Don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes.

2298
Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!

2299
Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.

2300
War does not determine who is right - only who is left..

2301
Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

2302
The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.

2303
I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

2304
Sour, sweet, bitter, pungent, all must be tasted.

2305
If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

2306
You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note.

2307
He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.

2308
Virtue herself is her own fairest reward.

2309
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

2310
The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.

2311
Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue.

2312
Nature does not loathe virtue: it is unaware of its existence.

2313
Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

2314
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.

2315
Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it's hard to get it back in!

2316
No one is entitled to the truth.

2317
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

2318
All great truths begin as blasphemies.

2319
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

2320
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.

2321
You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

2322
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

2323
Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.

2324
It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

2325
A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

2326
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.

2327
There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

2328
The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day.

2329
It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.

2330
Time is the fire in which we burn.

2331
Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

2332
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

2333
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.

2334
You can never plan the future by the past.

2335
Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you.

2336
With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.

2337
You may delay, but time will not.

2338
One thing you can't recycle is wasted time.

2339
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

2340
We never know the worth of water 'til the well is dry.

2341
A lie told often enough becomes truth.

2342
The object of the superior man is truth.

2343
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

2344
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

2345
Nurture your mind with great thoughts.

2346
Minds are like parachutes; they work best when open.

2347
What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.

2348
When all men think alike, no one thinks very much.

2349
Great minds think alike.

2350
Thinking: The talking of the soul with itself.

2351
We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

2352
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

2353
If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.

2354
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

2355
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

2356
If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.

2357
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

2358
Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.

2359
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

2360
Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.

2361
Tourists are terrorists with cameras. Terrorists are tourists with guns.

2362
A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.

2363
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.

2364
The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

2365
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

2366
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

2367
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.

2368
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

2369
Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's jobs with yesterday's tools.

2370
The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

2371
I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds. N.B.: This is a paraphrase from the ancient Hindu text, the Bhagavad Gita.

2372
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

2373
Taxation WITH representation ain't so hot either.

2374

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2386

2387

2388
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

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2415
This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

2416
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

2417
Never be bullied into silence.
Never allow yourself to be made a victim.
Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

2418
The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.

2419
The purpose of life is a life of purpose.

2420
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

2421
Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.

2422
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

2423
May you live every day of your life.

2424
Some people weave burlap into the fabric of our lives, and some weave gold thread.
Both contribute to make the whole picture beautiful and unique.

2425
Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.

2426
I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.

2427
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.

2428
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

2429
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

2430
It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts.

2431
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

2432
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

2433
Live every day as if it were your last, because one of these days, it will be.

2434
For some life lasts a short while, but the memories it holds last forever.

2435
It takes a great man to be a good listener.

2436
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

2437
Sometimes it is a great joy just to listen to someone we love talking.

2438
A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.

2439
To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil.

2440
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.

2441
Where there is great love, there are always wishes.

2442
The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.

2443
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

2444
You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her.

2445
Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes...just be an illusion.

2446
Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.

2447
Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.

2448
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

2449
Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.

2450
All life is an experiment.

2451
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

2452
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

2453
It is not length of life, but depth of life.

2454
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

2455
Life is wasted on the living.

2456
Don't take life seriously because you can't come out of it alive.

2457
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

2458
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
N. B.: This quote is commonly attributed to Voltaire, but it is not found in his writing.

2459
Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

2460
The right to be heard does not autmatically include the right to be taken seriously.

2461
We must remember that a right lost to one is lost to all.

2462
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

2463
He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

2464
Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

2465
The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.

2466
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

2467
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

2468
Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.

2469
The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.

2470
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

2471
The difference between a boss and a leader: a boss says, 'Go!' - a leader says, 'Let's go!'

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Leadership is a combination of strategy and character. If you must be without one, be without the strategy.

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Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

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A scent is not to be announced, but to be discovered.

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It's not enough that I should succeed -- others should fail.

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Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

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Success is that old ABC -- ability, breaks, and courage.

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The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the wins and the losses. Successes have many fathers, failures have none.

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If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

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Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

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The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything -- and it works.

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You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.

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But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

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Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.

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I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.

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They never fail who die in a great cause.

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

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Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view.

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It's not failure, but low aim is crime.

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The taxpayer -- that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.

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It's not easy being perfect, but somebody has to do it.

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Many candles can be kindled from one candle without diminishing it.

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Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.

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The first person who has to believe in you is you.

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95% of thinking is mental.

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The politicians don't just want your money. They want your soul. They want you to be worn down by taxes until you are dependent and helpless. When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both.

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Tax reform means, "Don't tax you, don't tax me. Tax that fellow behind the tree."

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Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.

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Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to nurture it in solitude and to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads.

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Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.

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Everyone has a talent, what is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

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The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.

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No man can discover his own talents.

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A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

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I concede!

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Nothing recedes like success.

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Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

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Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.

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The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

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Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

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No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.

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To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.

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That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.

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I don't know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets.

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It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.

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The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.

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Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought - particularly for people who cannot remember where they left things.

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Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.

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Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

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Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.

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The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.

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Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

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I gave up on new poetry myself thirty years ago, when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens on a hostile world.

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A poet is someone who is astonished by everything.

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Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

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Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

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To succeed in politics, it is often necessary to rise above your principles.

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When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.

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One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

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My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government -- he promised Dad he'd go straight.

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The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.

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If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.

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A camel is a horse designed by committee.

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Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

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Power (n): The only narcotic regulated by the SEC instead of the FDA.

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He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past.

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Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.

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The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

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A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

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'We must do something' is the unanimous refrain. 'You begin' is the deadening refrain.

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The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy, that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit.

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Anyone that wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.

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Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.

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Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.

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Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.

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All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.

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When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.

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Never look down on anybody unless you are helping him up.

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Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.

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It ain't braggin' if you can back it up.

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The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.

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The real problem is what to do with the problem-solvers after the problems are solved.

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The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.

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The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.

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The world is so fast that there are days when the person who says it can't be done is interrupted by the person who is doing it.

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The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

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Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

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There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

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Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

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Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Thse who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

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Practice is everything
(This is often misquoted as Practice makes perfect.)

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There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.

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Good questions outrank easy answers.

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He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.

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The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

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Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.

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For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: 'It might have been!'

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Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

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Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.

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Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

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I am a student. Please do not fold, spindle, or mutilate me.

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One should not stand at the foot of a sick person's bed, because that place is reserved for the guardian angel.

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Modern business approaches to riding dead horses...

Buying a stronger whip.

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Modern business approaches to riding dead horses...

Changing riders.

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Modern business approaches to riding dead horses...

Saying things like "This is the way we always have ridden this horse."

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Modern business approaches to riding dead horses...

Appointing a committee to study the horse.

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Modern business approaches to riding dead horses...

Arranging to visit other sites to see how they ride dead horses.

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Modern business approaches to riding dead horses...

Increasing the standards to ride dead horses.

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Modern business approaches to riding dead horses...

Appointing a tiger team to revive the dead horse.

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Modern business approaches to riding dead horses...

Creating a training session to increase our riding ability.

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Modern business approaches to riding dead horses...

Comparing the state of dead horses in today's environment.

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Modern business approaches to riding dead horses...

Change the requirements declaring that "This horse is not dead."

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Modern business approaches to riding dead horses...

Hire contractors to ride the dead horse.

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Modern business approaches to riding dead horses...

Harnessing several dead horses together for increased speed.

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Modern business approaches to riding dead horses...

Declaring that "No horse is too dead to beat."

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Modern business approaches to riding dead horses...

Providing additional funding to increase the horse's performance.

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Modern business approaches to riding dead horses...

Do a CA Study to see if contractors can ride it cheaper.

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Modern business approaches to riding dead horses...

Purchase a product to make dead horses run faster.

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Modern business approaches to riding dead horses...

Declare the horse is "better, faster and cheaper" dead.

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Modern business approaches to riding dead horses...

Form a quality circle to find uses for dead horses.

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Modern business approaches to riding dead horses...

Revisit the performance requirements for horses.

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Modern business approaches to riding dead horses...

Say this horse was procured with cost as an independent variable.

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Modern business approaches to riding dead horses...

Promote the dead horse to a supervisory position.

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Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.

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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

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Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.

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We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love on another.

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We had the sky up there, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss whether they was made or just happened.

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The Lord is my light, and my salvation; whom shall I fear?

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This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

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I still say a church steeple with a lightening rod on top shows a lack of confidence.

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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

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If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag; wash it.

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You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

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The reason people blame things on the previous generations is that there's only one other choice.

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Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.

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I was taught very early that I would have to depend entirely upon myself; that my future lay in my own hands.

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There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.

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Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

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A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.

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The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision.

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No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one.

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To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.

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Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.

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Many people quit looking for work when they find a job.

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For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism.

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The colder the X-ray table, the more of your body is required to be on it.

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The hardness of the butter is directly proportional to the softness of the bread.

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The severity of the itch is proportional to your reach.

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To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism - to steal from many is research.

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The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard.

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The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up.

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A fool and his money are soon partying.

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Drugs may lead to nowhere, but at least its the scenic route.

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Borrow money from pessimists - they don't expect it back.

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99 percent of lawyers give the rest a bad name.

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42.7 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot.

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When I'm not in my right mind, my left mind gets pretty crowded.

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If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.

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I don't mind going nowhere as long as it's an interesting path.

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Life not only begins at forty, it begins to show.

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The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.

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I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.

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The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.

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In simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where he wants to go, and gets up, and goes.

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One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

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The ultimate leader is one who is willing to develop people to the point that they eventually surpass him or her in knowledge and ability.

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Do books have even-numbered pages on the right or left side?
Left

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On a standard traffic light, is the green on the top or bottom?
Bottom

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In which hand is the Statue of Liberty's torch?
Right.

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What 6 colors are on the classic Campbell's soup label?
Blue, red, white, yellow, black, and gold.

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What 2 letters don't appear on the telephone dial? (No cheating!)
Q,Z.

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What 2 numbers on the telephone dial don't have letters by them?
1,0.

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When you walk does your left arm swing w/your right or left leg?
Right.

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How many matches are in a standard pack?
20.

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On the United States flag is the top stripe red or white?
Red.

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What is the lowest number on the FM dial?
88.

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Which way does water go down the drain, counterclockwise or clockwise?
Counterclockwise (unless you happen to be south of the equator).

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Which way does a "no smoking" sign's slash run?
Towards bottom right.

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How many channels on a VHF TV dial?
12 (no #1).

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Which side of a women's blouse are the buttons on?
Left.

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On a NY license plate, is New York on the top or bottom?
Top.

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Which way does a fan rotate?
Clockwise as you look at it.

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Whose face is on a dime?
Roosevelt.

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How many sides does a stop sign have?
8.

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Sleepy, Happy, Sneezy, Grumpy, Dopey, Doc. Who's missing?
Bashful.

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How many hot dog buns are in a standard package?
8.

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On which playing card is the cardmaker's trademark?
Ace of spades.

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On which side of a venetian blind is the cord that adjusts the opening between the slats?
Left.

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How many lug nuts are on a standard car wheel?
5.

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How many sides are there on a standard pencil?
6.

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On the back of a $1 bill, what is in the center?
ONE.

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There are 12 buttons on a touch tone phone. What 2 symbols bear no digits?
*, #.

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How many curves are there in the standard paper clip?
3.

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Does a merry-go-round turn counter clockwise or clockwise?
Counter.

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If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.

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The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing. (and then they marry him.)

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I know what Victoria's Secret is. The secret is that nobody older than 30 can fit into their stuff.

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