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"This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop."
Alfred Hitchcock

"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

"A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time."
Alfred E. Wiggam

"Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal."
Mike Ditka

"To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold."
Archibald MacLeish

"Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes."
Mickey Mouse

"Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change."
Andre Gide

"New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move."
David Letterman

"Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom."
Soren Kierkegaard

"We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds."
Anton Chekhov

"Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead."
Benjamin Franklin

"The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else."
Umberto Eco

"Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy."
Anne Frank

"The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes."
Frank Lloyd Wright

"I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places."
Henny Youngman

"The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault."
Henry Kissinger

"As we grow old... the beauty steals inward."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway."
John Wayne

"It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars."
Arthur C. Clarke

"Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice."
Baruch Spinoza

"After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say "I want to see the manager.""
William S. Burroughs

"If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do."
Samuel Butler

"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 is better to be quotable than to be honest."
Tom Stoppard

"I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic."
Lisa Alther

"I've been accused of every death except the casualty list of the World War."
Al Capone

"I believe in God, only I spell it Nature."
Frank Lloyd Wright

"If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such, the path of error is the path of truth."
Hans Reichenbach

"Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know."
Bertrand Russell

"It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!"
Friedrich Nietzsche

"Successful is the person who has lived well, laughed often and loved much, who has gained the respect of children, who leaves the world better than they found it, who has never lacked appreciation for the earth's beauty, who never fails to look for the best in others or give the best of themselves."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope."
Helen Keller

"Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind."
Daphne du Maurier

"It is not impossibilities which fill us with the deepest despair, but possibilities which we have failed to realize."
Robert Mallet

"Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy; but good administration can never save bad policy."
Adlai Stevenson

"The new communication technologies have provided us with opportunities as never before - they are your passport to customer care and business growth."
Debbie Mayo-Smith

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
Albert Einstein

"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

"It's there within us all. It costs nothing, takes almost no time and is powerful beyond measure. Unleash the power of praise and reap the rewards."
Susan Mitchell

"Successful people I admire are comfortable in their own skin. They don't need to take themselves too seriously....but they take their professionalism very seriously indeed."
Elaine Canty

"If at first an idea isn't totally absurd, there's no hope for it."
Albert Einstein

"The brighter you are, the more you have to learn."
Don Herold

"Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?"
Jules Feiffer

"I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally."
W.C. Fields

"Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake."
Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower

"If you can't convince them, confuse them."
Harry S. Truman

"A liberal is man too broad-minded to take his own side in a quarrel."
Robert Frost

"Intellectual capital is the sum of everything everybody in a company knows that gives it a competitive edge."
Thomas A. Stewart

"Oh would some power the gift to give us, to see ourselves as others see us!"
Robert Burns

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