Quotes by Unknown, Source

"No decent career was ever founded on a public."

Unknown, Source on public   

"Next to the prosperity of a good person, I am best pleased with the confusion of a rascal."

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"Ordinary people think merely of spending time. Great people think of using it."

Unknown, Source on purpose
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"Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?"

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"He who clings to life shall lose it -- but losing it in a right cause will gain it."

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"If we don't stand for something, we may fall for anything."

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"Pep without purpose is piffle."

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"What on earth are you doing for Heaven's sake?"

Unknown, Source on purpose   

"Anyone can live heroically and successfully for one day. The man who achieves a high purpose makes that day the pattern for all the days of his life."

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"Quality will be prized as a precious possession."

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"When you're out of quality you're out of business."

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"Produce great pumpkins, the pies will follow later."

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"If you don't have time to do it right you must have time to do it over."

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"There are no foolish questions and no one becomes a fool until they have stopped asking questions."

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"When someone says, That's a good question. You can be sure it's a lot better than the answer you're going to get."

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"The word question is derived from the Latin quarrier (to seek) which is the same root as the word for quest. A creative life is a continued quest, and good questions can be very useful guides. Most useful are open-ended questions; they allow for fresh unanticipated answers to reveal themselves."

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"An educated man is one who has finally discovered that there are some questions to which nobody has the answer."

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"An expert knows all the answers -- if you ask the right questions."

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"Beware of the man who knows the answer before he understands the question."

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"He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions."

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"My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces of courtesy and politeness."

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"The truly educated man is that rare individual who can separate reality from illusion."

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"If someone offers to furnish a sure test, ask what the test was which made the sure test sure."

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"Man always has two reasons for the things he does; the logical one and the real one."

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"You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into."

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"Reincarnation: People coming back to life at quitting time."

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"A close relative is one you see occasionally between family funerals."

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"Go to friends for advice, woman for love, strangers for charity and relatives for nothing."

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"A good test of a man's religion is its vitality."

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"Religion is like holding on to a rock in the middle of a raging river; faith is learning how to swim."

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"The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour."

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"The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter."

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"Reputations will continue to be made by many acts and be lost by one."

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"Nobody raises his own reputation by lowering others"

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"It is easier for a woman to defend her virtue against men than her reputation against women."

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"To write it, it took three months; to conceive it --three minutes; to collect the data in it --all my life."

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"Scientific research consists in seeing what everyone else has seen, but thinking what no one else has thought."

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"Reverence is one of the signs of strength, irreverence one of the surest indications of weakness. No man will rise high who jeers at sacred things. The fine loyalties of life must be reverenced or they will be fore sworn in the day of trial."

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"Life's heaviest burden is to have nothing to carry."

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"Freedom is a package deal -- with it comes responsibilities and consequences."

Unknown, Source on responsibility