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Charles Kettering: The biggest job...

Charles Kettering: The biggest job...

The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to...

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Eleanor Roosevelt: You can't move...

Eleanor Roosevelt: You can't move...

You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do...

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Stephen Leacock: Astronomy teaches the...

Stephen Leacock: Astronomy teaches the...

Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets.

Source: Literary...

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Beware the writer...

Beware the writer...

Beware the writer who always encloses the word *reality* in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on...

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My characters never...

My characters never...

My characters never die screaming in rage. They attempt to pull themselves back together and go on. And that's...

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J B Priestley: God can stand...

J B Priestley: God can stand...

God can stand being told by Professor Ayer and Marghanita Laski that He doesn't exist.

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr: Eloquence may set...

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr: Eloquence may set...

Eloquence may set fire to reason.

Source: Gitlow vs. New York, 1924.
-- Oliver...

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Jacques Cousteau: To yackety-yak about...

Jacques Cousteau: To yackety-yak about...

To yackety-yak about the past is for me time lost. Every morning I wake up saying, 'I'm still alive -- a miracle.'...

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Society is like...

Society is like...

Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the...

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One cannot raise...

One cannot raise...

One cannot raise the bottom of society without benefitting everyone above.

Source:...

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Albert Einstein: Imagination is more...

Albert Einstein: Imagination is more...

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Source: In Home Book Of American...

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Barbara McClintock: If you know...

Barbara McClintock: If you know...

If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off. . . no matter...

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Journalists were never...

Journalists were never...

Journalists were never intended to be the cheerleaders of a society, the conductors of applause, the sycophants....

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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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So you see...

So you see...

So you see the imagination needs moodling, - long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and...

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Benjamin Franklin: He who multiplies...

Benjamin Franklin: He who multiplies...

He who multiplies riches, multiplies cares.

Source: In

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John: You get to...

John: You get to...

You get to thinking that because you've written 50 or 100 songs, you think maybe you know how to do it. But when...

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Politics is a...

Politics is a...

Politics is a field where the choice lies constantly between two blunders.

Source:...

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If you have...

If you have...

If you have goals and procrastination you have nothing. If you have goals and you take action, you will have anything...

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These people who...

These people who...

These people who are always briskly doing something and as busy as waltzing mice, they have little, sharp, staccato...

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