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Richard Buckminster Fuller: Gold and silver...

Richard Buckminster Fuller: Gold and silver...

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

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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Saul Steinberg: People who see...

Saul Steinberg: People who see...

People who see a drawing in the New Yorker will think automatically that it's funny because it is a cartoon. If they...

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Oscar Wilde: The English public,...

Oscar Wilde: The English public,...

The English public, as a mass, takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is...

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Oscar Wilde: I know not...

Oscar Wilde: I know not...

I know not whether Laws be right
Or whether Laws be wrong;
All that we know who live in gaol
Is that the wall...

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Bertolt Brecht: Don't be afraid...

Bertolt Brecht: Don't be afraid...

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Source: Pelagea Vlasova, in...

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Polly Adler: The only difference...

Polly Adler: The only difference...

The only difference between them and my girls is that my girls gave a man his money's...

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Aristotle Onassis: The secret of...

Aristotle Onassis: The secret of...

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Source: In The...

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Richard Buckminster Fuller: You have to...

Richard Buckminster Fuller: You have to...

You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually...

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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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Lewis Thomas: The cloning of...

Lewis Thomas: The cloning of...

The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from science, along with behavior control,...

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Harold S Geneen: When I come...

Harold S Geneen: When I come...

When I come upon a man who has a gleaming, empty, clear desktop, I am dealing with a fellow who is so far removed from...

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Groucho Marx: Home is where...

Groucho Marx: Home is where...

Home is where you hang your head.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference...

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Anthony Trollope: Three hours a...

Anthony Trollope: Three hours a...

Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.

Source:...

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Kingman Brewster, Jr: There is a...

Kingman Brewster, Jr: There is a...

There is a correlation between the creative and the screwball. So we must suffer the screwball...

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Kingman Brewster, Jr: The function of...

Kingman Brewster, Jr: The function of...

The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes...

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Plato: When the mind...

Plato: When the mind...

When the mind is thinking, it is talking to itself.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Mary McLeod Bethune: I never stop...

Mary McLeod Bethune: I never stop...

I never stop to plan. I take things step by step.

Source: Faith That Moved a Dump...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: The masters have...

Friedrich Nietzsche: The masters have...

The masters have been abolished; the morality of the common man has triumphed.

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Ariel Durant: The conservative who...

Ariel Durant: The conservative who...

The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it.

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