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Walter Gropius: Specialists are people...

Walter Gropius: Specialists are people...

Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes.

Source: In Webster's...

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Vannevar Bush: To pursue science...

Vannevar Bush: To pursue science...

To pursue science is not to disparage the things of the spirit. In fact, to pursue science rightly is to furnish the...

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Jean-Paul Sartre: Evil is the...

Jean-Paul Sartre: Evil is the...

Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.

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Bertolt Brecht: As regards obstacles,...

Bertolt Brecht: As regards obstacles,...

As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.

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Bertolt Brecht: It isn't important...

Bertolt Brecht: It isn't important...

It isn't important to come out on top. What matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

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J B Priestley: When I was...

J B Priestley: When I was...

When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now that I am old there is no respect for the old. I missed...

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Carl Linnaeus: If a tree...

Carl Linnaeus: If a tree...

If a tree dies, plant another in its place.

Source: In 21st Century Dictionary of...

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Alfred Nobel: Hope is nature's...

Alfred Nobel: Hope is nature's...

Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.

Source: In

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Harold S Geneen: You cannot run...

Harold S Geneen: You cannot run...

You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.

Source: Managing,...

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G C Lichtenberg: What is the...

G C Lichtenberg: What is the...

What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but...

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Georges Clemenceau: When a man...

Georges Clemenceau: When a man...

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action.

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Wendy Wasserstein: The real reason...

Wendy Wasserstein: The real reason...

The real reason for comedy is to hide the pain.

Source: Interviews with...

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Emo Philips: When I was...

Emo Philips: When I was...

When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so...

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Maggie Kuhn: There must be...

Maggie Kuhn: There must be...

There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!

Source: In...

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Charlotte Bunch: The state of...

Charlotte Bunch: The state of...

The state of the world today demands that women become less modest and dream/plan/act/risk on a larger...

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Gloria Steinem: . . ....

Gloria Steinem: . . ....

. . . as for logic, it's in the eye of the logician.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Mary Astell: . . ....

Mary Astell: . . ....

. . . he who only or chiefly chose for Beauty, will in a little Time find the same Reason for another...

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Eliza Wood Burhans Farnham: [The] legitimate office...

Eliza Wood Burhans Farnham: [The] legitimate office...

[The] legitimate office [of the human face] is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of...

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Books, we are...

Books, we are...

Books, we are told, propose to instruct or to amuse. Indeed! . . . The true antithesis to knowledge, in this case, is...

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I do most...

I do most...

I do most of my work sitting down; that's where I shine.

Source: Attributed.
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