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  • Karl Albrecht If you're not serving the customer, you'd better be serving someone who is.
    Karl Albrecht
    German entrepreneur (1920 - 2014)
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  • Betty Carter If you're sitting in that audience ready to fight me from the very beginning, I'm going to have a hard time getting to you. But if you've got a heart at all, I'm going to get it.
    Betty Carter
    American jazz singer (1929 - 1998)
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  • James Baldwin If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they're real for you whether they're real or not.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Bryan Fuller If you're trying to make a recipe that you're not even going to bother tasting, you're doing something wrong.
    Bryan Fuller
    American television writer and producer (1969 - )
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  • Barbara Castle If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s.
    Barbara Castle
    British Labour Party politician (1910 - 2002)
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  • Samuel Johnson If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Bob Corker If your focus in life is on being productive, when things are not happening... one has to ask oneself, 'Is this worth a grown man's time?'
    Bob Corker
    American businessman and politician (1952 - )
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  • Bryan Adams If your music is great, you will have fans, not because you have spent time chatting on social media.
    Bryan Adams
    Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer and guitarist (1959 - )
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  • Arthur Eddington If your theory is found to be against the second law of theromodynamics, I give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation.
    Arthur Eddington
    English astronomer, physicist, and mathematician (1882 - 1944)
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  • Brooks Robinson If your're not practicing, somebody else is, somewhere, and he'll be ready to take your job.
    Brooks Robinson
    American professional baseball player (1937 - )
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  • Henri Estienne If youth but knew; if age but could.
    Henri Estienne
    French printer and classicist (1528 - 1598)
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  • Alexander Pope If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • George Orwell Ignorance and prejudice are the ballast of our ship of state - however, ships without ballast are not seaworthy and cannot sail in the tempests, nor reach a safe harbor.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Robert Browning Ignorance is not innocence, but sin.
    Robert Browning
    English poet (1812 - 1889)
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  • Confucius Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Plato Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Francis Bacon Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Shashi Tharoor Im not a techno-determinist. I believe we need to improve our existing human resources, and technology can only be a complement.
    Shashi Tharoor
    Indian politician and writer (1956 - )
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  • Blaise Pascal Imagination cannot make fools wise, but it makes them happy, as against reason, which only makes its friends wretched: one covers them with glory, the other with shame.
    Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Oscar Wilde Imagination is a quality given a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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