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| Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control. |
Don Marquis |
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| A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't |
Don Marquis |
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| Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. |
Don Marquis |
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| Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. |
Don Marquis |
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| The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race. |
Don Marquis |
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| If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you But if you really make them think, they'll hate you. |
Don Marquis |
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| The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water. |
John W. Gardner |
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| Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage. |
John W. Gardner |
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| Josh Billings said, It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices for running away from themselves, and the modern world is particularly rich in such stratagems. |
John W. Gardner |
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| When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for the famed teacher, Diogenes replied 'Only stand out of my light.' Perhaps some day we shall know how to heighten creativity. Until then, one of the best things we can do for creative men and women is to stand out of their light. |
John W. Gardner |
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| True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents. |
John W. Gardner |
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| Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narcotics it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality. |
John W. Gardner |
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| Storybook happiness involves every form of pleasant thumb-twiddling true happiness involves the full use of one's powers and talents. |
John W. Gardner |
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| History never looks like history when you are living through it. |
John W. Gardner |
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| The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else. |
John W. Gardner |
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| The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept. |
John W. Gardner |
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| We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems. |
John W. Gardner |
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| Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context -- a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan. |
Eliel Saarinen |
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| I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study this civilization the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball. |
Gerald Early |
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| No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure. |
Emma Goldman |
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| The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity the least divergence from it is the greatest crime. |
Emma Goldman |
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| The most violent element in society is ignorance. |
Emma Goldman |
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| The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society. |
Emma Goldman |
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| Crime is naught but misdirected energy. |
Emma Goldman |
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| The ends must justify the means. |
Matthew Prior |
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| They talk most who have the least to say. |
Matthew Prior |
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| They always talk who never think. |
Matthew Prior |
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| Be to her virtues very kind. Be to her faults a little blind. |
Matthew Prior |
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| We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor. |
Bobby Clarke |
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| I've developed a new philosophy... I only dread one day at a time. |
Charlie Brown |
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| Love means never having to say you're sorry. |
Erich Segal |
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| True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked. |
Erich Segal |
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| Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right. |
Henry Ford |
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| Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. |
Henry Ford |
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| You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do. |
Henry Ford |
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| Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. |
Henry Ford |
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| Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right. |
Henry Ford |
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| Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success. |
Henry Ford |
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| Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success. |
Henry Ford |
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| Asking 'Who ought to be the boss' is like asking 'Who ought to be the tennor in the quartet' Obviously, the man who can sing tenor. |
Henry Ford |
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| Don't find fault, find a remedy. |
Henry Ford |
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| Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. |
Henry Ford |
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| It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages. |
Henry Ford |
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| Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it. |
Henry Ford |
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| Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right. |
Henry Ford |
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| My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me. |
Henry Ford |
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| If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. |
Henry Ford |
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| Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. |
Henry Ford |
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| I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about. |
Henry Ford |
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| One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do. |
Henry Ford |
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| There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something. |
Henry Ford |
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| History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we made today. |
Henry Ford |
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| If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right. |
Henry Ford |
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| History is more or less bunk. |
Henry Ford |
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| I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done. |
Henry Ford |
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| People can have the Model T in any colour--so long as it's black. |
Henry Ford |
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| An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous. |
Henry Ford |
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| There is one rule for the industrialist and that is Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible. |
Henry Ford |
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| The world is too much with us late and soon,Getting and spending, we lay waste our powersLittle we see in Nature that is oursWe have given our hearts away, a sordid boon |
William Wordsworth |
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| To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears. |
William Wordsworth |
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| Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop Than when we soar. |
William Wordsworth |
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| That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. |
William Wordsworth |
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| Nature never did betray The heart that loved her. |
William Wordsworth |
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| The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benedictions. |
William Wordsworth |
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| The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person's life. |
William Wordsworth |
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| How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold Because the lovely little flower is free Down to its root, and in that freedom bold. |
William Wordsworth |
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| Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future. |
William Wordsworth |
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| Wisdom and spirit of the Universe Thou soul is the eternity of thought That giv'st to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion Not in vain By day or star-light thus from by first dawn Of childhood didst thou intertwine for me The passions that build up our human soul, Not with the mean and vulgar works of man, But with high objects, with enduring things, With life and nature, purifying thus The elements of feeling and of thought, And sanctifying, by such discipline Both pain and fear, until we recognize A grandeur in the beatings of the heart. |
William Wordsworth |
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| What though the radiance which was once so bright Be not forever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower Strength in what remains behind, In the primal sympathy Which having been must ever be, In the soothing thoughts that spring Out of Human suffering, In the faith that looks through death In years that bring philophic mind. |
William Wordsworth |
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| She was a phantom of delight When first she gleam'd upon my sight A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament. |
William Wordsworth |
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| Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit. |
Ansel Adams |
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| There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept. |
Ansel Adams |
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| No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit. |
Ansel Adams |
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| If we can dispel the delusion that learning about computers should be an activity of fiddling with array indexes and worrying whether X is an integer or a real number, we can begin to focus on programming as a source of ideas. |
Harold Abelson |
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| David I do not, for one, think that the problem was that the band was down. I think that the problem *may* have been, that there was a Stonehenge monument on the stage that was in danger of being *crushed* by a *dwarf*. Alright That tended to understate the hugeness of the object. |
This Is Spinal Tap |
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| Nigel It's like, how much more black could this be and the answer is none. None more black. |
This Is Spinal Tap |
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| Marty This pretentious ponderous collection of religious rock psalms is enough to prompt the question, What day did the Lord create Spinal Tap, and couldn't he have rested on that day too' |
This Is Spinal Tap |
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| Mick As long as there's, you know, sex and drugs, I can do without the rock and roll. |
This Is Spinal Tap |
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| Nigel You know, just simple lines intertwining, you know, very much like - I'm really influenced by Mozart and Bach, and it's sort of in between those, really. It's like a Mach piece, really. It's sort of - Marty What do you call this Nigel Well, this piece is called Lick My Love Pump. |
This Is Spinal Tap |
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| Marty This tasteless cover is a good indication of the lack of musical invention within. The musical growth of this band cannot even be charted. They are treading water in a sea of retarded sexuality and bad poetry. |
This Is Spinal Tap |
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| Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond. |
Dr. Jeffrey Borenstein |
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| Just when you think that a person is just a backdrop for the rest of the universe, watch them and see that they laugh, they cry, they tell jokes ... they're just friends waiting to be made. |
Dr. Jeffrey Borenstein |
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| Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. |
Arthur C. Clarke |
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| If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong. |
Arthur C. Clarke |
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| Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the idea is quite staggering. |
Arthur C. Clarke |
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| Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories. |
Arthur C. Clarke |
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| The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. |
Arthur C. Clarke |
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| It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value. |
Arthur C. Clarke |
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| I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about. |
Arthur C. Clarke |
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| CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power. |
Arthur C. Clarke |
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| There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum. |
Arthur C. Clarke |
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| The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale. |
Arthur C. Clarke |
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| The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible. |
Arthur C. Clarke |
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| Nicky I think in all fairness, I should explain to you exactly what it is that I do. For instance tomorrow morning ill get up nice and early, take a walk down over to the bank and... walk in and see and uh... if you don't have my money for me, I'll... crack your f***in' head wide-open in front of everybody in the bank. And just about the time I'm comin' out of jail, hopefully, you'll be coming out of your coma. And guess what I'll split your f***in' head open again. 'Cause I'm f***in' stupid. I don't give a f*** about jail. That's my business. That's what I do. |
Casino |
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| Ace In Vegas, everybody's gotta watch everybody else. Since the players are looking to beat the casino, the dealers are watching the players. The box men are watching the dealers. The floor men are watching the box men. The pit bosses are watching the floor men. The shift bosses are watching the pit bosses. The casino manager is watching the shift bosses. I'm watching the casino manager. And the eye-in-the-sky is watching us all. |
Casino |
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| Ace Running a casino is like robbing a bank with no cops around. For guys like me, Las Vegas washes away your sins. It's like a morality car wash. |
Casino |
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| Ace The town will never be the same. After the Tangiers, the big corporations took it all over. Today it looks like Disneyland. And while the kids play cardboard pirates, Mommy and Daddy drop the house payments and Junior's college money on the poker slots. In the old days, dealers knew your name, what you drank, what you played. Today, it's like checkin' into an airport. And if you order room service, you're lucky if you get it by Thursday. Today, it's all gone. You get a whale show up with four million in a suitcase, and some twenty-five-year-old hotel school kid is gonna want his Social Security Number. After the Teamsters got knocked out of the box, the corporations tore down practically every one of the old casinos. And where did the money come from to rebuild the pyramids Junk bonds. But in the end, I wound up right back where I started. I could still pick winners, and I could still make money for all kinds of people back home. And why mess up a good thing |
Casino |
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| Nicky A lot of holes in the desert, and a lot of problems are buried in those holes. But you gotta do it right. I mean, you gotta have the hole already dug before you show up with a package in the trunk. Otherwise, you're talking about a half-hour to forty-five minutes worth of digging. And who knows who's gonna come along in that time Pretty soon, you gotta dig a few more holes. You could be there all f***in' night. |
Casino |
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| Ace When you love someone, you've gotta trust them. There's no other way. You've got to give them the key to everything that's yours. Otherwise, what's the point And, for a while, I believed that's the kind of love I had. |
Casino |
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| Prudent people are very happy 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall retain to my day of Death the Humour of saying what I think. |
Mary Wortley Montagu |
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