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  • The first duty of life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one as yet discovered.
  • I've discovered that numerous peak performers use the skill of mental rehearsal of visualization. They mentally run through important events before they happen.
  • If you are prepared to accept the consequences of your dreams then you must still regard America today with the same naive enthusiasm as the generations that discovered the New World.
  • The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere.
  • Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
  • One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it.
  • I discovered early in my movie work that a movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it. There are times when this distinction may be given to the writer or director. Most often it belongs to the producer.
  • Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.
  • How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.
  • Personally I discovered that you could go through the academy as a young scholar, come out, and almost immediately have an impact on the academic environment.
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson A weed is a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • James Baldwin Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty - necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who have discovered the true faith the spiritual duty of liberating the infidels.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Thomas J. Peters The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.
    Thomas J. Peters
    American Management Consultant, Author, Trainer (1942 - )
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • W. C. Fields W. C. Fields, a lifetime agnostic, was discovered reading a Bible on his deathbed. ''I'm looking for a loop-hole,'' he explained.
    W. C. Fields
    American Actor (1880 - 1946)
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  • John Adams A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.
    John Adams
    President of the USA (2nd) (1735 - 1826)
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  • Charles Darwin A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
    Charles Darwin
    English scientist and biologist (1809 - 1882)
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  • Khaled Hosseini All my life, I'd been around men. That night, I discovered the tenderness of a woman
    The Kite Runner
    Khaled Hosseini
    Afghan-born American novelist and physician (1965 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bono Anyone that's involved in development has discovered that all the good work that's been done in development has been undone by the AIDS emergency.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Bill Cosby As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my [younger] brother... Russel, who taught me what was meant by survival of the fittest.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Louise Erdrich Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America.
    Louise Erdrich
    American author (1954 - )
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  • Bob Rae Constitutions do not emerge perfectly formed from the brain of the philosopher king, as Mr. Trudeau himself discovered in 1980 and 1981. They are always messy processes that are easier to knock down or tear apart than they are to construct.
    The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998) Ch. Seven, The Three Questions and the Question of
    Bob Rae
    Canadian diplomat, lawyer and negotiator (1948 - )
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  • Dale Carnegie Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
    Dale Carnegie
    American writer and lecturer (1888 - 1955)
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  • Jean Baudrillard Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • William Somerset Maugham From the earliest times the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser than they, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler Galileo wasn't put in prison because he was wrong about anything he discovered looking through his telescope; rather, he was incarcerated simply because he saw what others didn't wish to see.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Algernon H. Blackwood His imagination conceived and bore - worlds; but nothing in these worlds became alive until he discovered its true and living name. The name was the breath of life; and, sooner or later, he invariably found it.
    Algernon H. Blackwood
    English broadcasting narrator, journalist and writer (1869 - 1951)
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  • William E. Rothschild How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.
    William E. Rothschild
    American author (1933 - )
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