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  • Bill Monroe Bluegrass has brought more people together and made more friends than any music in the world. You meet people at festivals and renew acquaintances year after year.
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  • Bill Watterson Calvin: Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Hobbes: Probably so we can think twice.
    Bill Watterson
    American cartoonist (1958 - )
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  • Alfred P. Sloan Competition is the final price determinant and competitive prices may result in profits which force you to accept a rate of return less than you hoped for, or for that matter to accept temporary losses.
    Alfred P. Sloan
    American businessman (1875 - 1966)
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  • Bob Mayer Completing any writing project, particularly a novel, is a daunting prospect. Many people become frozen by the prospect. Others keep waiting for the right time. Some wait for the spark of inspiration. Even experienced writers find it is easier to do anything other than actually write.
    Bob Mayer
    American author (1959 - )
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf ;is better than a whole loaf.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Marcus Aurelius Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
    Original: Überzeugungen sind gefährlichere Feinde der Wahrheit als Lügen.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Bert Lance Country banks are more flexible in their lending policies than their city brethren are.
    Bert Lance
    American businessman (1931 - 2013)
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  • John Quincy Adams Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
    John Quincy Adams
    American statesman (1767 - 1848)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • A. Sachs Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.
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  • Bruce Schneier Digital files cannot be made uncopyable, any more than water can be made not wet.
    Schneier, Bruce (2001)
    Bruce Schneier
    American cryptographer, computer security professional and writer (1963 - )
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  • Anthony de Mello Do not fear the winds of adversity. Remember: a kite rises against the wind rather than with it.
    Anthony de Mello
    Indian Jesuit priest and psychotherapist (1931 - 1987)
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  • Plutarch Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Emily Dickinson Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • Sir John Lubbock Don't be afraid of showing affection. Be warm and tender, thoughtful and affectionate. Men are more helped by sympathy than by service. Love is more than money, and a kind word will give more pleasure than a present.
    Sir John Lubbock
    British statesman and banker (1834 - 1913)
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  • Edward Everett Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
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  • Jean Giraudoux Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.
    Jean Giraudoux
    French writer (1882 - 1944)
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  • Franklin Pierce Adams Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.
    Franklin Pierce Adams
    American columnist, well known by his initials F.P.A., and wit (1881 - 1960)
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  • Socrates Enjoy yourself - it's later than you think.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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