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Thomas A. Edison
Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions -- adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
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Van Wyck Brooks
The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.
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Yugoslav Proverb
A good rest is half the work.
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Dan Quayle, 8/11/89
Mars is essentially in the same orbit... Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe.
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Robert Louis Stephenson
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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Joe Paterno
Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.
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Henry Ward Beecher, last words, 8 March 1887.
Now comes the mystery.
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Voltaire, The Portable Voltaire
In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one part of the citizens to give to the other.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What government is the best That which teaches us to govern ourselves.
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Sir William Osler, In H. Cushing, Life of Sir William Osler (1925)
The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
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David Ogilvie
The best ideas come from jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.
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