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"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."
Terry Pratchett

"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being."
Carl Jung

"So much is a man worth as he esteems himself."
Francois Rabelais

"Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt."
Clarence Darrow

"The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition."
Carl Sagan

"Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency."
Raymond Chandler

"Old age is the most unexpected of things that can happen to a man."
Leon Trotsky

"I like life. It's something to do."
Ronnie Shakes

"It's never too late to be who you might have been."
George Eliot

"A smile is the shortest distance between two people."
Victor Borge

"People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get."
Frederick Douglass

"I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow."
Woodrow Wilson

"Cocaine is God's way of saying that you're making too much money."
Robin Williams

"If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee."
Abraham Lincoln

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."
Sir Winston Churchill

"There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun."
Pablo Picasso

"I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good."
Seneca

"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment."
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

"There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion."
Francis Bacon

"Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs."
Henry Ford

"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones."
John Cage

"The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill."
Peter Ustinov

"We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming."
Wernher von Braun

"Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Pay no attention to what the critics say... Remember, a statue has never been set up in honour of a critic!"
Jean Sibelius

"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow."
Mark Twain

"As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' - probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on."
Woody Allen

"It's hard to be nostalgic when you can't remember anything."
Anon

"Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better."
Laurie Anderson

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
Aristotle

"Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough."
Groucho Marx

"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever."
Napoleon Bonaparte

"Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else."
Ogden Nash

"Justice is what you get when you run out of money."
H.L. Mencken

"Systems allow us to apply the best thinking and give us a benchmark against which to measure and evaluate future ideas."
Alan Patching

"You have the choice of how to deal with swiftly-developing technologies. Treat them as offering the potential to massively improve our lives and business relationships, and they will."
Ross Dawson

"In times of rapid change an intelligently imagined view of the future has a better chance of being right than the present does of staying the same."
Bruce Haddon

"I believe we can shape our destiny by developing opinions and influencing events by seeking out the truth."
David Galbally QC

"Since a politician never belives what he says, he is surprised when others believe him."
Charles de Gaulle

"Risk-taking is the essence of innovation."
Herman Kahn

"A person will stand for a long time with their mouth open before a roast duck flies into it."
Chinese Proverb

"In times like these, it is helpful to remember that there have always been times like these."
Paul Harvey

"We are most nearly ourselves when we achieve the seriousness of the child at play."
Heraclitus

"Do not do unto others as you would they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same."
George Bernard Shaw

"No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand. The Centauri learned this lesson once. We will teach it to them again. Though it take a thousand years, we will be free."
J. Michael Straczynski

"It's not whether you win or lose, it's how good you look."
David Lee Roth

"I dream of a company where people come to work every day in a rush to try something they woke up thinking about the night before. We want them to go home from work wanting to talk about what they did that day, rather than trying to forget it. We want factories where the whistle blows and everybody wonders where the time went, and then somebody suddenly wonders aloud why we need a whistle. We want a company where people find a better way, everyday, of doing things, and where by shaping their own work experience, they make their lives better and their company the best."
Jack Welch, CEO, General Electric.

"A good man giving bad advice is more dangerous than a nasty man giving bad advice."
Conor Cruise P'Brien

"The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues."
Elizabeth Taylor

"Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other."
Oscar Ameringer

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