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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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Jessamyn West: In their sympathies,...

Jessamyn West: In their sympathies,...

In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults.

Source: The Life I...

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The stench of...

The stench of...

The stench of human wreckage in which the Nazi regime finally sank down to defeat has been the most shocking fact of...

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Harry Emerson Fosdick: Every human life...

Harry Emerson Fosdick: Every human life...

Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man in his...

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Ernest Dimnet: Most people suspend...

Ernest Dimnet: Most people suspend...

Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat...

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Witter Bynner: Words came out...

Witter Bynner: Words came out...

Words came out of the womb of matter;
And whether a man dispassionately
Sees to the core of life
Or...

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Martin H Fischer: In diagnosis think...

Martin H Fischer: In diagnosis think...

In diagnosis think of the easy first.

Source: Fischerisms, by Howard Fabing and Ray...

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Gloria Vanderbilt: . . ....

Gloria Vanderbilt: . . ....

. . . one of the goals of life is to try and be in touch with one's most personal themes -- the values, ideas, styles,...

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Gloria Vanderbilt: . . ....

Gloria Vanderbilt: . . ....

. . . that is the best -- to laugh with someone because you both think the same things are...

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Dale Carnegie: I deal with...

Dale Carnegie: I deal with...

I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be...

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