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Louis Pasteur: The greatest disorder...

Louis Pasteur: The greatest disorder...

The greatest disorder of the mind is to let will direct it.

Source: In The...

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Louis Pasteur: There does not...

Louis Pasteur: There does not...

There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are science and the...

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David Hockney: It is very...

David Hockney: It is very...

It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his...

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Morarji Desai: Self-help must precede...

Morarji Desai: Self-help must precede...

Self-help must precede help from others. Even for making certain of help from heaven, one has to help...

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Anne Bradstreet: If what I...

Anne Bradstreet: If what I...

If what I do prove well, it won't advance,
They'll say it's stolen, or else it was by...

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Oscar Wilde: When the gods...

Oscar Wilde: When the gods...

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

Source: Sir Robert...

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Oscar Wilde: CECILY. When I...

Oscar Wilde: CECILY. When I...

CECILY. When I see a spade I call it a spade.
GWENDOLEN. I am glad to say I have never seen a spade. It is obvious...

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Oscar Wilde: The value of...

Oscar Wilde: The value of...

The value of an idea has nothing whatsoever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses...

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Peter Drucker: Managers are the...

Peter Drucker: Managers are the...

Managers are the basic and scarcest resource of any business enterprise.

Source:...

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So many people...

So many people...

So many people dwell on negativity and I've survived by ignoring it: it dims your light and it's harder each time to...

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Edmond Rostand: My pessimism goes...

Edmond Rostand: My pessimism goes...

My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.

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Talk is cheap...

Talk is cheap...

Talk is cheap -- except when Congress does it.

Source: In Readers' Digest.
--...

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The lessons taught...

The lessons taught...

The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so...

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If you follow...

If you follow...

If you follow your bliss, doors will open for you that wouldn't have opened for anyone...

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Events that are...

Events that are...

Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we...

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This idea of...

This idea of...

This idea of passing one's whole life in moral idleness, and having one's hardest work and duty done by another --...

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Too many moralists...

Too many moralists...

Too many moralists begin with a dislike of reality.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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The leading cause...

The leading cause...

The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates.

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Every man with...

Every man with...

Every man with an idea has at least two or three followers.

Source: In Quotable...

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Good plays drive...

Good plays drive...

Good plays drive bad playgoers crazy.

Source: Theatre Arts, Aug 1956.
-- Brooks...

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