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"What a strange narrowness of mind now is that, to think the things we have not
known are better than the things we have known. "
Samuel Johnson
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"The great sadness of my life is that I never
achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the
half-hour newscast, but many times as good."
Walter Cronkite
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"Face what you think you believe and you will be surprised."
William Hale White
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"The perils of duck hunting are great - especially for the duck."
Walter Cronkite
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"Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped."
African Proverb
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"There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or
you are not free."
Walter Cronkite
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"One can enjoy a wood fire worthily only when he warms his thoughts by it as well as
his hands and feet."
Odell Shepherd
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"Talent is the desire to practice."
Malcolm Gladwell
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"The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same."
Johann Joachim Winckelmann
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"Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas. "
Stalin
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"One defeats the fanatic precisely by not becoming a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence."
George Orwell
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"In times of disorder and stress, the fanatics play a prominent role; in times of peace, the critics. Both are shot after the revolution."
Edmund Wilson
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"Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time."
Betty Smith
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"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts."
Bertrand Russell
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"Once you have made up your mind, facts are but a mere annoyance."
Unknown
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"A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking."
Unknown
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"Freedom of Press is limited to those who own one."
H.L. Menken
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"The Aim of an Argument ... should not be victory, but progress."
Joseph Joubert
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"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."
Friedrich Nietzche
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"Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us."
Justice William O. Douglas
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"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
Voltaire
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"If we do not believe in freedom of expression for those we despise we do not believe in it at all."
Noam Chomsky
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"Question Authority."
Anonymous
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"Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech."
Benjamin Franklin
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"No man’s life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session."
Mark Twain
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"The government is like a baby’s alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other."
Ronald Reagan
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"I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts."
Will Rogers
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"Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you."
Pericles
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"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have."
Thomas Jefferson
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"Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress.... But I repeat myself."
Mark Twain
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"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what
you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are."
John Wooden
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"Success builds character, failure reveals it."
Dave Checkett
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"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him."
James D. Miles
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"The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out."
Thomas Babington Macaulay
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"The average woman would rather have beauty than brains because the average man can see
better than he can think."
Anonymous
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"Man can have but what he strives for."
Arabian Proverb
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"When a man has put a limit on what he will do, he has put a limit on what he can do."
Charles M. Schwab
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"There is no better measure of a person than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose."
Wilma Askinas
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"Live not one's life as though one had a thousand years, but live each day as the last."
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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"The man who is prepared has his battle half fought."
Miguel De Cervantes
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"Only a person who has faith in himself can be faithful to others."
Erich Fromm
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"The difference between one man and another is not mere ability - it is energy."
Thomas Arnold
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"The smallest worm will turn being trodden on ..."
William Shakespeare
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"The worm will turn ..."
Ancient Proverb
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"A modest little person, with much to be modest about."
Winston Churchill
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"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."
Oscar Wilde
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"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."
Winston Churchill
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"He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary."
William Faulkner
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"I’ve had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn’t it."
Groucho Marx
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"He is a self-made man and worships his creator."
John Bright
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"He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up."
Paul Keating
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"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends."
Oscar Wilde
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"I’ve just learned about his illness. Let’s hope it’s nothing trivial."
Irvin S. Cobb
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"He is not only dull himself; he is the cause of dullness in others."
Samuel Johnson
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"He loves nature in spite of what it did to him."
Forrest Tucker
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"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving."
Albert Einstein
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"He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any one I know."
Abraham Lincoln
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"I feel so miserable without you; it’s almost like having you here."
Stephen Bishop
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"I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it."
Mark Twain
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"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure."
Clarence Darrow
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"America loves a winner, and will not tolerate a loser."
George S. Patton
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"Those who do not read and understand history are doomed to repeat it."
Harry Truman
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"Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those we cannot resemble."
Samuel Johnson
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"Men are more important than tools. If you don't believe so, put a good tool into the hands of a
poor workman"
John J. Bernet
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"The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra."
Jimmy Johnson
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"Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take
care of itself."
Elbert Hubbard
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"Toss your dashed hopes not into a trash bin but into a drawer where you are
likely to rummage some bright morning."
Robert Brault
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"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
Theodore Roosevelt
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"The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself."
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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"I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes."
Sara Teasdale
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"I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum."
Frances Willard
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"Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win."
Jonathan Kozel
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"Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your
liberty."
Frank Herbert
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"You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by
what others say about him."
Leo Aikman
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"Never miss an opportunity to make others happy, even if you have to leave them
alone in order to do it."
Author Unknown
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"If you surrender to the wind, you can ride it."
Toni Morrison
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"Now that it's all over, what did you really do yesterday that's worth mentioning?"
Coleman Cox
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"You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on
scratched-out pages."
Mignon McLaughlin
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"Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree."
Jim Rohn
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"Remember, if you’re headed in the wrong direction, God allows U-turns!"
Allison Gappa Bottke
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"Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It happens every day."
Albert Camus
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"You've got a lot of choices. If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore and you're
not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice."
Steven D. Woodhull
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"To be a success in business, be daring, be first, be different."
Henry Marchant
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"Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters."
Nathaniel Emmons
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"Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing."
Robert Benchley
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"Those who can command themselves command others."
William Hazlitt
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"Let us keep our mouths shut and our pens dry until we know the facts."
Dr. A. J. Carlson
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"Our bodies are where we stay; Our souls are what we are."
Cecil Baxter
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"What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath
of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the
grass and loses itself in the sunset." [Last words 1890]
Crowfoot
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"It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice. I consider the real vice is making losses."
Winston Churchill
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"The past, the present and the future are really one - they are today."
Stowe
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"It is discouraging to try to be a good neighbor in a bad neighborhood."
William Castle
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"Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long."
George Bernard Shaw
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"A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves."
Henry Ward Beecher
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"Discover what you want most of all in this world, and set yourself to work on it."
John Homer Miller
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"Happiness is someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for."
Chinese Proverb
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"It is better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same."
Sir Philip Gibbs
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"Get a pattern of your life from God, then go about your work and be yourself."
Phillips Brooks
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"To grow and know what one is growing towards -- that is the source of all strength and confidence in life."
James Baillie
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"It is pleasant to recall past troubles."
Cicero
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"An extravagance is anything you buy that is of no earthly use to your wife."
Franklin Pierce Adams
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"Whatever you have, you must either use or lose."
Henry Ford
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"No one remembers who came in second."
Walter Hagen
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"Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th."
J. Andrews
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"Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons."
Woody Allen
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"Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft."
Theodore Roosevelt
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"Freedom without obligation is anarchy; freedom with obligation is democarcy."
Earl Riney
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"An archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more
interested he is in her."
Agatha Christie
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"Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better."
Edgar W. Howe
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"The bigger a man's head gets, the easier it is to fill his shoes."
Henry A. Courtney
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"A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back
again when it begins to rain."
Robert Frost
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"Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action."
Benjamin Disraeli
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"All of the animals except man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it."
Samuel Butler
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"Nothing comes from nothing."
Lucretius
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"If peace cannot be maintained with honor, it is no longer peace."
Lord John Russell
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"Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end."
Lord Acton
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"Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man."
Benjamin Franklin [Poor Richard's Almanac]
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"Computer users soon learn that the miraculous powers of personal computers are based
on avoidance of error."
Robert Burchfield
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"History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the
resemblance until the damage is done."
Sydney J. Harris
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"I don't think you can spend yourself rich."
George Humphrey
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"In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits."
Lee Iacocca
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"When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary." [Common Sense]
Thomas Paine
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"When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting"
Saint Jerome
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"This is a beautiful country." [Remark as he rode to the gallows, seated on his coffin]
John Brown
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"God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it."
Daniel Webster
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"A smattering of everything, and a knowledge of nothing."
Charles Dickens
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"More worship the rising than the setting sun."
Pompey [Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus]
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"I propose to consider the question, `Can machines think?`."
Alan Mathison Turing
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"In the future everyone will be world-famous for fifteen minutes."
Andy Warhol
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"Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest thing in the nicest way."
Isaac Goldberg
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"When one door closes another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed
door that we do not see the ones which open for us."
Alexander Graham Bell
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"For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?"
Jesus Christ
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"Take my assets - but leave me my organization and in five years I'll have it all back."
Alfred M. Sloan
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"Democracy is the worst form of government except all others."
Winston Churchill
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"Wars almost never end the way starters had in mind."
Malcolm Forbes
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"We are all salesmen every day of our lives. We are selling our ideas, our plans, our enthusiasms to those
with whom we come in contact."
Charles M. Schwab
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"The evil that men do lives on the front pages of greedy newspapers, but the
good is oft interred apathetically inside."
Brooks Atkinson
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"It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem."
Malcolm Forbes
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"Let ancient times delight other folk, I rejoice that I was not born till now."
Ovid
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"When local legacy print and radio media outlets forgo their responsibility to
objectively or fairly report, an entrepreneur cannot help but recognize the glaring
opportunity to fill that void in the marketplace."
D. Tim Clark
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"Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck."
The Dalai Lama
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