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  • Barbara McClintock If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off... no matter what they say.
    Barbara McClintock
    American scientist and cytogeneticist (1902 - 1992)
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  • Desiderius Erasmus If you look at history you'll find that no state has been so plagued by its rulers as when power has fallen into the hands of some dabbler in philosophy or literary addict.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • Norman Vincent Peale If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done.
    Norman Vincent Peale
    American minister and author (1898 - 1993)
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  • Auberon Herbert If you tie a man's hands there is nothing moral about his not committing murder.
    Auberon Herbert
    British writer, theorist, philosopher
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  • Harry S. Truman If you want to get elected, shake hands with 25, 000 people between and November 7.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Olin Miller If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.
    Olin Miller
    American businessman
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  • Pope Paul VI If you wish to be brothers, let the arms fall from your hands. One cannot love while holding offensive arms.
    Pope Paul VI
     
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  • Ben Bernanke If you're in a car crash, you're mostly involved in trying to not go off the bridge, and later on you say, 'Oh my God!'
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Casey Stengel If you're playing baseball and thinking about managing, you're crazy. You'd be better off thinking about being an owner.
    Casey Stengel
    American basketbal player and manager (1890 - 1975)
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  • Walter Gropius If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
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  • Barbara Corcoran If your house has been on the market for more than four months, take it off the market and re-list it in two months as 'new.
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • Sophocles Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.
    Sophocles
    Greek poet (496 - 406)
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  • Aldous Huxley Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Billie Jean King In 1973, a woman could not get a credit card without her husband or father or a male signing off on it.
    Billie Jean King
    American tennis player (1943 - )
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  • Ben Marcus In certain strains of Judaism, there's a profound passion for the ineffable. Contemplation of God is meant to be forever elusive, because, you know, our tiny minds can't possibly comprehend Him. If we find ourselves comprehending Him, then we can be sure we're off track.
    Ben Marcus
    American author and professor
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson In each of us, two natures are at war – the good and the evil. All our lives the fight goes on between them, and one of them must conquer. But in our own hands lies the power to choose – what we want most to be we are.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Andy Hertzfeld In fact when I first got my Apple II the first thing I did was turn it on and off, on and off, just because I had the power to do so, which I'd never had on a computer before.
    Andy Hertzfeld
    American software engineer and innovator (1953 - )
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  • Amy Hempel In my head there's a broken balcony I fall off of when I speak.
    Source: Rick Moody (2007) 129
    Amy Hempel
    American short story writer and journalist (1951 - )
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  • Bob Graham In my judgment, the greatest risks are international terrorist groups like al Qaeda and Hezbollah. The war in Iraq has taken our attention off those priorities.
    Bob Graham
    American politician and author (1936 - )
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