Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
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Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress.
David Rockefeller
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Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.
Oliver Goldsmith
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No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the sources of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.
Maxwell Maltz
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The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Conscience is the dog that can't bite, but never stops barking.
Proverb
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We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
Samuel Smiles
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Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they will.
Pythagoras
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If the aborigine drafted an IQ test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it.
Stanley Garn
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In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.
Francis Bacon
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Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse
Thomas Fuller
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We seldom call anybody lazy, but such as we reckon inferior to us, and of whom we expect some service.
Bernard Mandeville
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Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.
John Keats
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Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it.
Frank A. Clark
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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.
Menander
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Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers.
Robert Half
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All you can be sure about in a political-minded writer is that if his work should last you will have to skip the politics when you read it. Many of the so-called politically enlisted writers change their politics frequently . Perhaps it can be respected as a form of the pursuit of happiness.
Ernest Hemingway
If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.
Doug Larson
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I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top.
Frank Moore Colby
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Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition.
Henry Clay, Speech, 1832
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I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me
W. Somerset Maugham
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There is one plain rule of life. Try thyself unwearied till thou findest the highest thing thou art capable of doing, faculties and outward circumstances being both duly considered, and then do it.
John Stuart Mill
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No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.
Source Unknown
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