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David Sarnoff: Work and live...

David Sarnoff: Work and live...

Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much...

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Sylvia Porter: Money never remains...

Sylvia Porter: Money never remains...

Money never remains just coins and pieces of paper. Money can be translated into the beauty of living, a support in...

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Sylvia Porter: Beware of the...

Sylvia Porter: Beware of the...

Beware of the danger signals that flag problems: silence, secretiveness, or sudden...

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I am grateful...

I am grateful...

I am grateful that my horizons were not narrowed at the outset.

Source: c. 1981; in...

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Problems arise in...

Problems arise in...

Problems arise in that one has to find a balance between what people need from you and what you need for...

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I must tell...

I must tell...

I must tell you I take terrible risks. Because my playing is very clear, when I make a mistake you hear it. Never be...

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Thomas Otway: Honest men<br>are the...

Thomas Otway: Honest men
are the...

Honest men
are the soft easy cushions on which knaves
Repose and fatten.


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Man Ray: An original is...

Man Ray: An original is...

An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an original is motivated be necessity. . . It is...

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Gordon Parks: Nothing came easy....

Gordon Parks: Nothing came easy....

Nothing came easy. I was just born with a need to explore every toolshop of my mind, and with long searching and hard...

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Benjamin Franklin: If you would...

Benjamin Franklin: If you would...

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth...

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Paul Gauguin: I shut my...

Paul Gauguin: I shut my...

I shut my eyes in order to see.

Source: In Quotable Business, ed. Louis E. Boone,...

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Willem de Kooning: Whatever an artist's...

Willem de Kooning: Whatever an artist's...

Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes...

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Georgia O'Keeffe: When you take...

Georgia O'Keeffe: When you take...

When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment.

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Georgia O'Keeffe: Before I put...

Georgia O'Keeffe: Before I put...

Before I put a brush to canvas, I question, Is this mine? . . . Is it influenced by some idea which I have acquired...

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Georgia O'Keeffe: I decided that...

Georgia O'Keeffe: I decided that...

I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its...

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Georgia O'Keeffe: I am trying...

Georgia O'Keeffe: I am trying...

I am trying with all my skill to do a painting that is all woman, as well as all of me.

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Robert Millikan: Perhaps the Mad...

Robert Millikan: Perhaps the Mad...

Perhaps the Mad Hatter had a reason for calling time Him.

Source: Time, Matter and...

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George Chapman: Danger is the...

George Chapman: Danger is the...

Danger is the spur of all great minds.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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John Lyly: All men [are]...

John Lyly: All men [are]...

All men [are] of one metal, but not in one mold.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Sean O'Casey: Laughter is wine...

Sean O'Casey: Laughter is wine...

Laughter is wine for the soul -- laugh soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness. Comedy and tragedy...

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