You can use all the quantitative

You can use all the
quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.

by Alvin Toffler

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In the end, you're measured not by

In the end, you're measured not by how much you undertake but by what you finally accomplish.

by Donald Trump

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The most successful men in the

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion... It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider - and progressively better able to grasp any theme or
situation - persevering in what he knows to be
practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is
bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

by Alexander Graham Bell

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You have your identity when

You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.

by A. R. Ammons

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Let us go forward in this battle

Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.

by Owen Arthur

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Don't interfere with anything in the

Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must
be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

by Abraham Lincoln

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Find fitness with fun dancing

Find fitness with fun dancing. It is fun and makes you forget about the dreaded exercise.

by Paula Abdul

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You can fool too

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.

by James Thurber

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The best way to break

The best way to break a bad habit is to drop it.

by Leo Aikman

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Murderers will try to recall the sequence of

Murderers will try to recall the sequence of events, they will remember exactly what they did just before and just after. But they can never remember the actual moment of killing. This is why they will always leave a clue.

by Peter Ackroyd

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I don't look so closely at women's fashion

I don't look so closely at women's fashion, but from the 20th century on, people have had the freedom to express themselves and their individualities, and fashion is one of the most fundamental ways in which they do this, men and women are equally able to express themselves.

by Tadao Ando

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If thy brother wrongs thee

If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.

by Epictetus

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A state is better governed

A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.

by Rene Descartes


The Philosophical Writings of Descartes: Volume 1 Rene Descartes
Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy Rene Descartes

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Freedom is an indivisible word

Freedom is an indivisible word. If we want to enjoy it, and fight for it, we must be prepared to extend it to everyone, whether they are rich or poor, whether they agree with us or not, no matter what their race or the color of their skin.

by Wendell Willkie

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The good people sleep much better at night

The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more.

by Woody Allen

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The mystique associated with the bomb

The mystique associated with the bomb, the role that scientists played in it, and its general importance could not fail to impress even a six-year old.

by Sidney Altman

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To have great poets

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Most people work the greater part of

Most people work the greater part of their time for a mere living; and the little freedom which remains to them so troubles them that they use every means of getting rid of it.

by Goethe

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I call it small government, grass-roots

I call it small government, grass-roots activism: The Tea Party activists are a part of it, FreedomWorks is part of it. FreedomWorks is the longest-standing, most active organization within this movement.

by Dick Armey

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Searching for what I need, and I don't even know

Searching for what I need, and I don't even know precisely what that is, I was going from a man to a man, and I saw that all of them together have less than me who has nothing, and that I left to each of them a bit of that what I don't have and I've been searching for.

by Ivo Andric

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There are always protests, whether you do

There are always protests, whether you do something good or bad. Even if you do something beneficial, people say you do it because it's advertising.

by Giorgio Armani

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In our minds, love and lust are really

In our minds, love and lust are really separated. It's hard to find someone that can be kind and you can trust enough to leave your kids with, and isn't afraid to throw her man up against the wall and lick him from head to toe.

by Tori Amos

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Books are but waste paper unless we spend

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.

by William Butler Yeats

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If a sufficient number of management layers

If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance.

by Norman Ralph Augustine

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Between the fear that something would happen and the

Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives.<

by Ivo Andric

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Indeed, we are privileged to have been afforded the

Indeed, we are privileged to have been afforded the opportunity to study Nature and to follow our own thoughts and inspirations in a time of relative tranquillity and in a land with a generous and forward-looking government.

by Sidney Altman

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Emancipation came to the colored race in America

Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment.

by Wendell Willkie

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It is fundamentally important that Grasso

It is fundamentally important that Grasso resign so that the New York Stock Exchange can restore its moral authority.

by Phil Angelides

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To be read by bare inscriptions, like many in Gruter

To be read by bare inscriptions, like many in Gruter, to hope for eternity by enigmatical epithets or first letters of our names--to be studied by antiquarians who we were, and have new names given us like many of the mummies, are cold consolation unto the students of perpetuity, even by everlasting languages.

by Thomas Hughes

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Medicine is a collection of uncertain

Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.

by Napoleon Bonaparte


Napoleon Bonaparte: A Life
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Napoleon Bonaparte: The background, strategies, tactics and battlefield experiences of the greatest commanders of history  

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Isn't it enough to see that a garden is

Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

by Douglas Adams

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