Plan well before you take the journey. Remember the carpenter's rule: Measure twice, cut once.
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Plan well before you take the journey. Remember the carpenter's rule: Measure twice, cut once.
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A wise man turns chance into good fortune.
Thomas Fuller
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
J. Bartlett Brebner
Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.
Marquis De Vauvenargues
The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph W. Sockman
A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.
James Barrie
Time stays long enough for those who use it.
Leonardo DaVinci
Time stays long enough for those who use it.
In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.
Alan Alda
In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.
W. R. Whitney
The wise man says it cannot be done, but the fool goes and does it.
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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.
Robert Francis Kennedy
One's mind suffers only when one is young and while one is ignorant of the world. When one has lived for some time, one learns that the young think too little and the old too much, and one grows careless about both.
Horace Walpole, in a letter to Horace Mann, January 14, 1772
After listening to a lecture on evolution by a science professor, a student wrote a poem and titled it The Amazing Professor.
The poem read: Once I was a tadpole when I began to begin. Then I was a frog with my tail tucked in. Next I was a monkey on a coconut tree. Now I am a doctor with a Ph.D.
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There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.
Samuel Johnson
To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it.
Publilius Syrus
Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good.
Marquis De Vauvenargues
More flies are caught with honey than with vinegar.
Proverb
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
Henry Kissinger
An ambassador is an honest person sent to lie abroad for their country.
Sir Henry Wotton
Home is the place where we are treated the best, but grumble the most.
Source Unknown
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
Erma Bombeck
Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.
W. H. Auden
Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead!
Fannie Flagg
Watch the turtle. He only moves forward by sticking his neck out.
Lou Gerstner
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