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Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
Author: Unknown, quoted by Jim Horning
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The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - that is why they invented hell.
Author: Bertrand Russell
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There is no substitute for victory.
Author: Douglas McArthur, Farwell Speech to Joint Session of US Congress, 1952
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Religion is far too important a thing for atheists to leave to the religious.
Author: Tor Nřrretranders, Mćrk Verden (English title not known)
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There are no whole truths; all truths are half- truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
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To be great is to be misunderstood.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson, An Essay on Self-Reliance
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In every aspect of our lives, we are always asking ourselves, How am I of value? What is my worth? Yet I believe that worthiness is our birthright.
Author: Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine
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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand ­ and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late.
Author: Marie Beyon Ray
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An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for months or years. A competent attorney can delay one even longer.
Author: Evelle J. Younger
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A platitude is simply a truth repeated until people get tired of hearing it.
Author: Stanley Baldwin
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The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.
Author: Maureen Dowd
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To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.
Author: Thomas Carlyle
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Sometimes the only sense we can make out of life is a sense of humor.
Author: American Greetings Card
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God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.
Author: Daniel Webster
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Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
Author: Peter Drucker
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Vanity makes us do more things against inclination than reason.
Author: Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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Do little things now; so shall big things come to thee by and by asking to be done.
Author: Persian
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Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
Author: Newt Gingrich
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Someday is not a day of the week.
Author: Anonymous
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My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
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