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| Americans are overreachers overreaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses. |
George Will |
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| Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence. |
George Will |
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| Assumptions allow the best in life to pass you by. |
John Sales |
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| All that Communism needs to make it successful is someone to feed and clothe it. |
'Columbia Record' |
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| The Return we reap from generous actions is not always evident. |
Francesco Guicciardini |
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| Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things so do instincts. Our instincts are at war.... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.... |
C. S. Lewis |
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| There are two kinds of people those who say to God, Thy will be done, and those to whom God says, All right, then, have it your way. |
C. S. Lewis |
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| Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair. |
C. S. Lewis |
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| Linus Apparently, he's got a record longer than my... well, it's long. |
Ocean's Eleven |
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| Reuben Second most successful robbery. The Flamingo in '71. This guy actually tasted fresh oxygen before they grabbed him. Of course, he was breathing out of a hose for the next three weeks. God damn hippy. |
Ocean's Eleven |
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| Danny Cause the house always wins. Play long enough, you never change the stakes. The house takes you. Unless, when that perfect hand comes along, you bet big, then you take the house. |
Ocean's Eleven |
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| Reuben Look, we all go way back and uh, I owe you from the thing with the guy in the place and I'll never forget it. |
Ocean's Eleven |
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| Rusty Shane, you've got three pairs. You can't have six cards You can't have six cards in a five-card game |
Ocean's Eleven |
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| Rusty You look down, they know you're lying and up, they know you don't know the truth. Don't use seven words when four will do. Don't shift your weight, look always at your mark but don't stare, be specific but not memorable, be funny but don't make him laugh. He's got to like you then forget you the moment you've left his side. |
Ocean's Eleven |
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| I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel. |
Peter Nivio Zarlenga |
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| To come to be you must have a vision of Being, a Dream, a Purpose, a Principle. You will become what your vision is. |
Peter Nivio Zarlenga |
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| To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil. |
Pearl Bailey |
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| Sometimes I would rather that people take away years from my life Than take away a moment. |
Pearl Bailey |
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| You never find yourself until you face the truth. |
Pearl Bailey |
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| A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest. |
Pearl Bailey |
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| There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside. |
Pearl Bailey |
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| We must change in order to survive. |
Pearl Bailey |
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| What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork. |
Pearl Bailey |
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| When you're young, the silliest notions seem the greatest achievements. |
Pearl Bailey |
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| There are two kinds of talents, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while. |
Pearl Bailey |
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| Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible. |
Pearl Bailey |
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| There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job. |
Peter Drucker |
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| The computer is a moron. |
Peter Drucker |
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| The individual is the central, rarest, most precious capital resource of our society. |
Peter Drucker |
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| In business school classrooms they construct wonderful models of a nonworld. |
Peter Drucker |
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| Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans. |
Peter Drucker |
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| Leadership is not magnetic personality--that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not 'making friends and influencing people'--that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations. |
Peter Drucker |
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| The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said. |
Peter Drucker |
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| Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed. |
Peter Drucker |
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| When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course. |
Peter Drucker |
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| Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked leadership is defined by results not attributes. |
Peter Drucker |
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| Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folkways and superstition, and of cooperation for force. It means the substitution of responsibility for obedience to rank, and of authority of performance for the authority of rank. Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision. |
Peter Drucker |
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| Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work. |
Peter Drucker |
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| In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from. |
Peter Drucker |
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| So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work. |
Peter Drucker |
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| A crash is when your competitor's program dies. When your program dies, it is an 'idiosyncrasy'. Frequently, crashes are followed with a message like 'ID 02'. 'ID' is an abbreviation for idiosyncrasy and the number that follows indicates how many more months of testing the product should have had. |
Guy Kawasaki |
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| Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens -- and then everybody disagrees. |
Boris Marshalov |
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| If you can imagine it,You can achieve it.If you can dream it,You can become it. |
William Arthur Ward |
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| A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life. |
William Arthur Ward |
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| Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority. |
William Arthur Ward |
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| The pessimist complains about the wind the optimist expects it to change the realist adjusts the sails. |
William Arthur Ward |
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| Blessed is he who has learned To admire but not envy, To follow but not imitate, To praise but not flatter, And to lead but not manipulate. |
William Arthur Ward |
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| Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. |
William Arthur Ward |
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| Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning. |
William Arthur Ward |
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| Opportunity is often difficult to recognize we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards. |
William Arthur Ward |
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| To make mistakes is human to stumble is commonplace to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity. |
William Arthur Ward |
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| When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves. |
William Arthur Ward |
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| A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition. |
William Arthur Ward |
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| It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not people to focus your energies on answers -- not excuses. |
William Arthur Ward |
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| The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. |
William Arthur Ward |
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| Wise are they who have learned these truths Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube. |
William Arthur Ward |
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| We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys. |
William Arthur Ward |
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| A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths feels your fears but fortifies your faith sees your anxieties but frees your spirit recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities. |
William Arthur Ward |
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| Gentlemen, it is better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football. |
John Heisman |
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| When in doubt, punt |
John Heisman |
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| Challenges are what make life interesting overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. |
Joshua J. Marine |
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| Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire. |
Margaret Mead |
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| Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have. |
Margaret Mead |
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| Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. |
Margaret Mead |
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| For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders. |
Margaret Mead |
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| A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again. |
Margaret Mead |
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| We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a lifestyle that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world. |
Margaret Mead |
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| Women want medicore men. and men are working hard to become as medicore as possible. |
Margaret Mead |
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| Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful. |
Margaret Mead |
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| The United States has the power to destroy the world, but not the power to save it alone. |
Margaret Mead |
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| The mind is not sex-typed. |
Margaret Mead |
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| Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run. |
Margaret Mead |
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| The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it. |
Elizabeth Drew |
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| Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation. |
Elizabeth Drew |
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| The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live. |
Joan Borysenko |
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| Some tension is necessary for the soul to grow, and we can put that tension to good use. We can look for every opportunity to give and receive love, to appreciate nature, to heal our wounds and the wounds of others, to forgive, and to serve. |
Joan Borysenko |
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| 'Tisn't life that matters 'Tis the courage you bring to it. |
Joan Borysenko |
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| Time is the fire in which we burn. |
Gene Roddenberry |
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| A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away. |
Gene Roddenberry |
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| The glory of creation is in its infinite diversity. |
Gene Roddenberry |
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| Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so. |
David Grayson |
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| Talk of joy there may be things better than beef stew and baked potatoes and home-made bread -- there may be. |
David Grayson |
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| I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day. We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole year. As for me, I like to take my Christmas a little at a time, all through the year. And thus I drift along into the holidays--let them overtake me unexpectedly--waking up some fine morning and suddenly saying to myself Why this is Christmas Day |
David Grayson |
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| Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode it is rather a life. |
David Grayson |
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| Life is too brief. I had a friend whom I intended to know better. Yesterday he died. |
David Grayson |
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| Adventure is not outside a man it is within. |
David Grayson |
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| Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems. |
Rene Descartes |
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| It is not enough to have a good mind the main thing is to use it well. |
Rene Descartes |
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| The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues. |
Rene Descartes |
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| Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed, for everybody thinks he is so well supplied with it, that even those most difficult to please in all other matters never desire more of it than they already possess. |
Rene Descartes |
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| Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense - no one needs more of it than one already has |
Rene Descartes |
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| Cogito, ergo, sum. (I think therefore I am.) |
Rene Descartes |
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| Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears. |
Rene Descartes |
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| The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts. |
Rene Descartes |
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| Cogito ergo sum. |
Rene Descartes |
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| It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived. |
Rene Descartes |
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| In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate. |
Rene Descartes |
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| One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another. |
Rene Descartes |
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| The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt. |
Rene Descartes |
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| If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. |
Rene Descartes |
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