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| Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories - those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost. |
Russell Baker |
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| People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately. |
Russell Baker |
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| Citius, Altius, Fortius |
Olympic Motto |
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| The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant. |
Max De Pree |
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| The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer. |
John Madden |
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| They say some of my stars drink whiskey. But I have found that the ones who drink milkshakes don't win many ballgames. |
Casey Stengel |
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| The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It's that they stay out all night looking for it. |
Casey Stengel |
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| Two hundred million Americans, and there ain't two good catchers among 'em. |
Casey Stengel |
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| Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits. |
Casey Stengel |
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| The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are undecided. |
Casey Stengel |
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| There comes a time in every man's life and I've had many of them. |
Casey Stengel |
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| The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided. |
Casey Stengel |
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| It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary. |
David Bailey |
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| Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf. |
American Indian Proverb |
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| I will not criticize another until I have walked a mile in his mocassins. |
American Indian Proverb |
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| We do not inherit the land, we borrow it from our children. |
American Indian Proverb |
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| What the people believe is true. Anishinabe |
American Indian Proverb |
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| You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. Navajo |
American Indian Proverb |
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| A people without history is like wind on the buffalo grass. Sioux |
American Indian Proverb |
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| Tell me and I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'll understand. |
American Indian Proverb |
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| After dark all cats are leopards. Zuni |
American Indian Proverb |
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| Man has responsiblity, not power. Tuscarora |
American Indian Proverb |
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| Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf. |
American Indian Proverb |
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| If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies in yourself. Minquass |
American Indian Proverb |
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| Do not wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not he that you wrong but yourself. |
American Indian Proverb |
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| Every animal knows more than you do. Nez Perce |
American Indian Proverb |
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| Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his moccasins. |
American Indian Proverb |
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| Laughter is the shortest distance between two people. |
Victor Borge |
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| Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth. |
Victor Borge |
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| The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose . to keep the junk from getting in the way of important things. |
Victor Borge |
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| Ah Mozart He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. |
Victor Borge |
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| I only know two pieces one is 'Clair de Lune' and the other one isn't. |
Victor Borge |
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| The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer. |
Victor Borge |
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| A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can let alone. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, an they who edit and read it are old women over their tea. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| Men are born to succeed, not to fail. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| Dreams are the touchstones of our character. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| The man who goes alone can start today but he who travels with another must wait till the other is ready, and it may be along time before they get off. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| Be true to your work, your word, and your friend. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| It is not enough to be busy the question is what are we busy about |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| I do not wish to kill nor to be killed, but I can foresee circumstances in which these things would be by me unavoidable. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| The world is but a canvas to the imagination. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at its root. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| That government is best which governs least. - from Civil Disobedience |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly...I think-- Any fool can make a rule And every fool will mind it. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living. - from Live Without Principle |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| The ways by which you may get money almost without exception lead downward. - from Live Without Principle |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| What a man thinks of himself that is what determines, or rather indicates his fate. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| It takes two to speak truth - One to speak, and another to hear. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is in prison. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom. - from Live Without Principle |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| To reget deeply is to live afresh. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible And indescribably as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star-dust caught, A segment of the rainbow which I have clutched. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, this is no other life but this. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| There are now-a-days professors of philosophy but not philosophers. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his friends for his life. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| Why should we be in such desperate hast to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| However mean your life is, meet it and live it do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| Make the most of your regrets. . . . To regret deeply is to live afresh. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| Whatever sentence will bear to be read twice, we may be sure was thought twice. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| However mean your life is, meet it and live it do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state, a hummock left by the ice. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| Faint heart never won true friend. O my friend, may it come to pass, once, that when you are my friend I may be yours. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| It is never too late to give up our prejudices. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| Arthur Schopenhauer Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence about language. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy we reason from our hands to our head. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| Goodness is the only investment that never fails. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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