"A lot of fellows nowadays have a B. A., M. D., or Ph. D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J. O. B."

Fats Domino on experts   

"Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them."

Einstein, Albert on intelligence and intellectuals
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"The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen."

Iacocca, Lee on action
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"Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage."

Ballou, Hosea on truth
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"Talent works, genius creates."

Schumann, Robert on talent   

"They have a right to censure that have a heart to help."

Penn, William on blame   

"The measure of a great leader, is their success in bringing everyone around to their opinion twenty years later."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on leadership
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"If I could remember your name, I'd ask you where I left my keys."

Bumper Sticker on memory
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"It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on detail
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"If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth."

Thirkell, Angela on lies and lying   

"Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor."

Bacon, Francis on anger
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"Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish."

Ovid on fate
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"Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own."

Gaulle, Charles De on character
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"We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately."

Franklin, Benjamin on unity
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"Through wisdom is a house built; and by understanding it is established; and by knowledge shall every room be filled with precious and pleasant riches."

Bible on wisdom
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"People who create 20% of the results will begin believing they deserve 80% of the rewards."

Riley, Pat on results   

"If you pray for only one thing, .let it be for an idea."

Sutton, Percy on ideas
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"When a man lies, he murders some part of the world."

Merlin on lies and lying
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"The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility."

Colton, Charles Caleb on truth   

"Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought."

Salak, John Charles on failure
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"Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans."

Drucker, Peter F. on commitment
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"All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage."

Byron, Lord on marriage
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"Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them."

Reagan, Ronald on government
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"Vision looks inwards and becomes duty. Vision looks outwards and becomes aspiration. Vision looks upwards and becomes faith."

Wise, Stephen S. on vision
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"The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against unbelief."

Carlyle, Thomas on belief
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"If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host."

Heatter, Gabriel on happiness
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"Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night."

Herbert, George on prayer   

"You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes."

Shaw, George Bernard on power
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"You must look into people, as well as at them."

Chesterfield, Lord on character
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"I agree with no one's opinion. I have some of my own."

Turgenev, Ivan on opinions   

"We have no problems, only situations. Not all problems have solutions, but all situations have outcomes."

Gray, John Edward on problems
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"Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age."

Moreau, Jeanne on age and aging
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"It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do for which we are accountable."

Moliere on responsibility
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"He who begins and does not finish loves their pains."

Proverb on procrastination
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"Religion is the opium of the masses."

Marx, Karl on religion
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"That is my major preoccupation --memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it."

Wiesel, Elie on memory   

"To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it."

Hazlitt, William on reason   

"Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -"

Budgell, Eustace on friends and friendship
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"Violence is my last option."

Norris, Chuck on violence   

"Do not choose your wife at a dance, but in the field among the harvesters."

Proverb, Czech. on wives
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