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To be great is to be misunderstood.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), An Essay on Self-Reliance
I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.: Lawana Blackwell, The Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter, 1998
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If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.: Elizabeth Bowen (1899 - 1973)
We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.: Anne-Sophie Swetchine
Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one.: Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965), speech to Democratic National Convention, Chicago, Illinois, July 21, 1952
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Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.: Charles W. Eliot (1834 - 1926), The Happy Life, 1896
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I'm sure a lot of you had this experience when you're changing. You're growing as a person and people tend to treat you like you were 18 months ago, and it's really frustrating sometimes when you're growing up and you're more capable. It's the same thing with a company and the press. The press is going to have a lag time. The best thing we can do about the press is embrace them and do the best thing we can to educate them about our strategy. But to keep our eye on the prize, that is turning out some great products. the press and the stock prize will take care of themselves.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Apple WWDC Closing Keynote, 1997
I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.: Joseph Baretti, quoted in Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson
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One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.: Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745)
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A joke's a very serious thing.: Charles Churchill, "The Ghost", 1762
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.: Kurdish Proverb
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To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.: Baltasar Gracian
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Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Walden: Economy, 1854
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.: Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
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Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity.: Unknown, Hanlon's Razor
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I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top.: An English Professor, Ohio University
It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.: Henry Allen
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I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)