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  • Cyril Northcote Parkinson The man who is denied the opportunity of making decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to make.
    Cyril Northcote Parkinson
    British naval historian (1909 - 1993)
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  • Cyril Northcote Parkinson The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.
    Cyril Northcote Parkinson
    British naval historian (1909 - 1993)
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  • Bruce Lee The man who is really serious, with the urge to find out what truth is, has no style at all. He lives only in what is.
    Jeet Kune Do (1997) Part 6
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Thomas Jefferson The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing, but newspapers.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Will Rogers The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, 'How is the president?'
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Germaine Greer The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood.
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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  • Ben Kingsley The many many imponderables come together when a film opens and for all sorts of reasons it may or may not succeed.
    Ben Kingsley
    English actor (1943 - )
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  • Sam Snead The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.
    Sam Snead
    American professional golfer (1912 - 2002)
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  • Douglas Everett The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.
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  • Mark Twain The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nation, and from the mass of the nation only - not from its privileged classes.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Bayard Taylor The maxims tell you to aim at perfection, which is well; but it's unattainable, all the same.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Corrie Ten Boom The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.
    Corrie Ten Boom
    Dutch-American resistance fighter and autobiographical writer (1892 - 1983)
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  • Jackie Joyner Kersee The medals don't mean anything and the glory doesn't last. It's all about your happiness. The rewards are going to come, but my happiness is just loving the sport and having fun performing.
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  • Bernard Crick The method of rule of the tyrant and the oligarch is quite simply to clobber, coerce, or overawe all or most other groups in the interest of their own.
    In Defence Of Politics Ch. 1, The Nature Of Political Rule, p. 18
    Bernard Crick
    British political theorist (1929 - 2008)
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  • Hilaire Belloc The microbe is so very small: You cannot take him out at all.
    Hilaire Belloc
    British Author (1870 - 1953)
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  • Bernie S. Siegel The mind and body are not separate units, but one integrated system. How we act and what we think, eat, and feel are all related to our health. Physicians should be capable of teaching this behavior to patients.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • Lord George Byron The mind can make substance, and people planets of its own with beings brighter than have been, and give a breath to forms which can outlive all flesh.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Baruch Spinoza The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary.
    Ethics
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh The mind is constantly talking. If the inner talk can drop even for a single moment you will be able to have a glimpse of no-mind. That's what meditation is all about. The state of no-mind is the right state. It is your state.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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