Reality is merely an illusion, .................................................
albeit a persistent one.
Albert Einstein
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Reality is merely an illusion, .................................................
albeit a persistent one.
Albert Einstein
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"Where talent is a dwarf, .......................................
self-esteem is a giant."
-J. Petit-Senn, Conceits and Caprices
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"When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete,.................................................
everybody will respect you."
Lao-Tzu
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I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. ..................................................
It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics and ideologues who menace decency and progress...................................................
No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever.
Daniel J. Boorstin
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Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith................................................
They keep it awake and moving.
Frederick Buechner
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"It is not necessary to change. .......................................................
Survival is not mandatory."
W. Edwards Deming
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Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands............................................
and at whom it is aimed.
Josef Stalin
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The first panacea for a misguided nation is inflation of the currency
the second is war. ..............................
Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. .....................
But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists. ..........................
Ernest Hemingway
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"A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light,...................................................... ....
but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it."
Maxwell Planck
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"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character,................................
give him power."
Abraham Lincoln
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And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in all the world..................................
And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected............................................
And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.
John Steinbeck, East of Eden
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Doing the best at this moment.............................................
puts you in the best place for the next moment.
Oprah Winfrey
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"If you can look back on your life with contentment,...........................................
you have one of man's most precious gifts -- a selective memory."
Jim Fiebig
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When one door closes, another opens;.........................................
but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door..................................
that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
Alexander Graham Bell
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"He who dies with the most toys is,.............................................
nonetheless, still dead."
Anon.
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The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will
magnify the efficiency. ...............................................
The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation
will magnify the inefficiency.
Bill Gates
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Time is the most precious element of human existence. .......................................
The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.
Denis Waitley
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"The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything --............................
and it works."
William Strong
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I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty...............................................
I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me...................................................
'Don't complain about growing old - many, many people do not have that privilege'.
Earl Warren
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A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours.
Milton Berle
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I hate television. .........................................
I hate it as much as peanuts.........................................
But I can't stop eating peanuts.
Orson Welles
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If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves,.................................................. .
it is because self-knowledge is painful ............................................................ .
and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy [1946], Chapter 9
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A thick skin is a gift from God.
Konrad Adenauer
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"Trade is much superior to piracy...........................................
You can rob and kill a man but once,.......................................
but you can cheat him again and again."
Louis L'Amour, The Walking Drum
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If you go in for argument, take care of your temper...................................
Your logic, if you have any, will take care of itself.
Joseph Farrell
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