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Random Short Quotations - 62
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Irving Berlin
The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.
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Harry S Truman, Letter to his sister, Nov. 14, 1947
All the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.
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Patricia Russell-McCloud
Life is an escalator You can move forward or backward you can not remain still.
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Denis Watley
Luck happens when oppurtunity encounters the prepared mind.
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Orison Swett Marden
When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, - this is happiness, this is success.
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Alfred North Whitehead
It does not matter what men say in words, so long as their activities are controlled by settled instincts. The words may ultimately destroy the instincts. But until this has occurred, words do not count. - from Science and the Modern World
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Henry Allen
It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.
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Frank Herbert
The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
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Margaret Mead
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
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William Shakespeare
The earth has music for those who listen.
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Victor Hugo
So different are the colours of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.
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William James
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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