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Gilbert Highet: The aim of...

Gilbert Highet: The aim of...

The aim of those who try to control thought is always the same. They find one single explanation of the world, one...

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Doroth?e DeLuzy: Employment and ennui...

Doroth?e DeLuzy: Employment and ennui...

Employment and ennui are simply incompatible.

Source: In The Last Word - A Treasury...

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John Aubrey: When he killed...

John Aubrey: When he killed...

When he killed a calf he would do it in a high style, and make a speech.

Source:...

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Charles Wesley: O for a...

Charles Wesley: O for a...

O for a thousand tongues to sing my great Redeemer's praise!

Source: In Draper's...

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Mary McLeod Bethune: If our people...

Mary McLeod Bethune: If our people...

If our people are to fight their way out of bondage we must arm them with the sword and the shield and the buckler of...

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Betty Smith: The difference between...

Betty Smith: The difference between...

The difference between rich and poor is that the poor do everything with their own hands and the rich hire hands to do...

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Mark Twain: The radical invents...

Mark Twain: The radical invents...

The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.

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Sholem Asch: Personality is the...

Sholem Asch: Personality is the...

Personality is the gland of creativity.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase,...

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Falsely conceived and...

Falsely conceived and...

Falsely conceived and rather clumsily executed . . . crooked folklore and halfway opera.

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Peter Drucker: Charisma becomes the...

Peter Drucker: Charisma becomes the...

Charisma becomes the undoing of leaders. It makes them inflexible, convinced of their own infallibility, unable to...

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Harold S Geneen: Leadership cannot really...

Harold S Geneen: Leadership cannot really...

Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.

Source: Managing/...

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Salvador Dali: The only difference...

Salvador Dali: The only difference...

The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad.

Source: Diary of...

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Pablo Picasso: Every act of...

Pablo Picasso: Every act of...

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Source: In A Whack On...

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Richard Buckminster Fuller: Controlled time is...

Richard Buckminster Fuller: Controlled time is...

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Source: In

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Lewis Thomas: The act of...

Lewis Thomas: The act of...

The act of smelling something, anything, is remarkably like the act of thinking. Immediately at the moment of...

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Lewis Thomas: The capacity to...

Lewis Thomas: The capacity to...

The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA. Without this special attribute, we would still be...

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J Robert Oppenheimer: I am become...

J Robert Oppenheimer: I am become...

I am become Death, the shatterer of worlds.

Source: quoting a line from the...

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Marcel Duchamp: The chess pieces...

Marcel Duchamp: The chess pieces...

The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on...

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Richard Buckminster Fuller: I'm not a...

Richard Buckminster Fuller: I'm not a...

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

Source: In

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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek: [W]henever I found...

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek: [W]henever I found...

[W]henever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all...

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