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"There are three secrets to managing. The first secret is have patience. The second is be patient. And the third most important secret is patience."
Chuck Tanner
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"Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research."
Wilson Mizner
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"Being comfortable isn't the way to learn to expand your abilities."
Thomas Perry
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"Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in."
Alan Alda
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"A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg."
Samuel Butler
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"A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad."
Albert Camus
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"Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed."
Mason Cooley
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"The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't."
Henry Ward Beecher
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"Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way."
Aaron Allston
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"Well, I was lucky enough to be involved in about 19 failures at an early age, so I'm realistic about the success I'm having and how quickly it can go away. What's important is to be smart about it."
Matthew Perry
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"It isn't the original scandal that gets people in the most trouble - it's the attempted cover-up."
Tom Petri
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"Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time."
Jean Cocteau
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"For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them."
Aristotle
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"This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway."
Bob Dylan
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"We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going... Concentrate on something useful."
Arnold Bennett
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"Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk."
Doug Larson
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"Ideology and communication more often than not run into each other rather than complement each other. Principle and communication work together. Ideology and communication often work apart."
Frank Luntz
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"The perception of the audience is the interesting part. If the audience doesn't hear what is going on, is it going on or not?"
Robert Fripp
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"Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost."
John Quincy Adams
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"Caramels are only a fad. Chocolate is a permanent thing."
Milton Snavely Hershey
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"Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch."
Tim Berners-Lee
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"A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience."
Elbert Hubbard
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"Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion."
Henry Steele Commager
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"The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses."
Napoleon Hill
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"Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them."
Don Marquis
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"Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary."
Ray Knight
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"In an underdeveloped country don't drink the water. In a developed country don't breathe the air."
Jonathan Raban
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"A conference is a gathering of people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done."
Fred A. Allen
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"The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing."
Pierre Bonnard
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"Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem."
John Galsworthy
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