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  • George Bernard Shaw Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • B. F. Skinner Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Eugene Wigner Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve
    Eugene Wigner
     
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  • Alain de Botton Pick up any newspaper or magazine, open the TV, and you'll be bombarded with suggestions of how to have a successful life. Some of these suggestions are deeply unhelpful to our own projects and priorities - and we should take care.
    Alain de Botton
    Swiss-born British author (1969 - )
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  • Francis Bacon Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Anthony Weiner Pictures get manipulated, pictures get dropped into accounts. We've asked an internet security firm and a law firm to take a hard look at this to come up with a conclusion about what happened and to make sure it doesn't happen again.
    Anthony Weiner
    American politician (1964 - )
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  • Abu Bakr Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.
    Abu Bakr
    Companion and father-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (573 - 634)
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  • Carlo Collodi Pinocchio, spurred on by the hope of finding his father and of being in time to save him, swam all night long.
    Source: Pinocchio
    Carlo Collodi
    Italian author, humorist and journalist (1826 - 1890)
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  • William E. Vaughan Pipe-smokers spend so much time cleaning, filling and fooling with their pipes, they don't have time to get into mischief.
    William E. Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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  • Bruce Sutter Pitchers are going to break. You can limit their pitches and limit their innings, and they're still going to blow out. Pitching is hard on the arm.
    Bruce Sutter
    American professional baseball pitcher (1953 - )
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  • Oliver Goldsmith Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Josh Billings Pity cost nothing and ain't worth nothing.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Sir Edwin Arnold Pity makes the world soft to the weak and noble to the strong.
    Sir Edwin Arnold
    English poet and journalist (1832 - 1904)
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  • William Wordsworth Plain living and high thinking are no more.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Paul J. Meyer Plan your progress carefully; hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power.
    Paul J. Meyer
    American businessman and business consultant (1928 - )
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  • Norman Vincent Peale Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.
    Norman Vincent Peale
    American minister and author (1898 - 1993)
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  • Gloria Steinem Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Sir John Harvey Planning is an unnatural process; it is much more fun to do something. The nicest thing about not planning is that failure comes as a complete surprise, rather than being preceded by a period of worry and depression.
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Robert Collier Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment.
    Robert Collier
    American author
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