The road to positivity is strewn with the abandoned vehicles of the faint-hearted.
Peter McWilliams
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The road to positivity is strewn with the abandoned vehicles of the faint-hearted.
Peter McWilliams
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly
Michel de Montaigne
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They are slaves who fear to speak, for the fallen and the weak
James Russell Lowell
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The art of advertisement, after the American manner, has introduced into all our life such a lavish use of superlatives, that no standard of value whatever is intact.
Percy Wynham Lewis
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He who would search for pearls must dive below.
John Dryden
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The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education
Paul Karl Feyerabend
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The ideal committee is one with me as the chairman, and two other members in bed with the flu.
Lord Milverton
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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time.
Anon.
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The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
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It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
Eric Hoffer
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The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.
John Maynard Keynes
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To see a man beaten not by a better opponent but by himself is a tragedy.
Cus D'Amato
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It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it's not, it's a visa, and it runs out fast.
Julie Burchill
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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
Chinese Proverb
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Any new venture goes through the following stages: Enthusiasm, complication, disillusionment, search for the guilty, punishment of the innocent and decoration of those who did nothing.
Anon.
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It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour.
Thomas Jefferson
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We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.
Aristotle
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Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg
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People who take risks are the people you'll lose against
John Sculley
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Only the person of worth can recognize the worth in others.
Thomas Carlyle
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Assumptions are the termites of relationships.
Henry Winkler
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Better to be ignorant of a matter than half know it.
Publilius Syrus
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Measure not by the scale of perfection the meager product of reality.
Friedrich von Schiller
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Life is a dead-end street.
H. L. Mencken
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He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.
Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn.
Benjamin Franklin
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