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Ogden Nash: Purity is obscurity....

Ogden Nash: Purity is obscurity....

Purity is obscurity.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed. Keith Mohler,...

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Nicolas Copernicus: Let us put...

Nicolas Copernicus: Let us put...

Let us put these new hypotheses [in] public appearance among the old ones which are themselves no more probable,...

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A pessimist is...

A pessimist is...

A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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William Morris: Simplicity of life,...

William Morris: Simplicity of life,...

Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement; a sanded floor and...

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Mary Kay Ash: For every failure,...

Mary Kay Ash: For every failure,...

For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock,...

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J B Priestley: Many a man...

J B Priestley: Many a man...

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

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Our affluent society...

Our affluent society...

Our affluent society contains those of talent and insight who are driven to prefer poverty, to choose it, rather than...

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Albert Einstein: Einstein's Three Rules...

Albert Einstein: Einstein's Three Rules...

Einstein's Three Rules of Work: 1) Out of clutter find simplicity; 2) From discord find harmony; 3) In the middle of...

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Mary Kay Ash: Aerodynamically the bumblebee...

Mary Kay Ash: Aerodynamically the bumblebee...

Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know it, so it goes on flying...

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Soren Kierkegaard: The truth is...

Soren Kierkegaard: The truth is...

The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch...

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Too many people...

Too many people...

Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having...

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You don't always...

You don't always...

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Source: In

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When producers want...

When producers want...

When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to...

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Harry Emerson Fosdick: He who knows...

Harry Emerson Fosdick: He who knows...

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it...

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Harry Emerson Fosdick: Life asks not...

Harry Emerson Fosdick: Life asks not...

Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled.

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Show me a...

Show me a...

Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with...

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Eleanor Roosevelt: You must do...

Eleanor Roosevelt: You must do...

You must do the thing that you think you cannot do.

Source: In The Book of Success,...

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Before you kill...

Before you kill...

Before you kill something make sure you have something better to replace it with; something better than political...

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She was built...

She was built...

She was built for crowds. She has never come any closer to life than the dinner table.

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In the stress...

In the stress...

In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that...

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