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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Aaron Sorkin Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word 'census,' and people fall asleep.
    Aaron Sorkin
    American screenwriter, director, producer, and playwright (1961 - )
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  • Ban Ki-moon Climate change, demographics, water, food, energy, global health, women's empowerment - these issues are all intertwined. We cannot look at one strand in isolation. Instead, we must examine how these strands are woven together.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Ben Johnston Commerce is one of the daughters of Fortune, inconsistent and deceitful as her mother. she chooses her residence where she is least expected, and shifts her home when in appearance she seems firmly settled.
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  • Tryon Edwards Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.
    Tryon Edwards
    American theologian (1809 - 1894)
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  • Jack Nicklaus Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.
    Jack Nicklaus
    American golf player (1940 - )
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  • William Shakespeare Conscience is but a word that cowards use.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Josh Billings Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Albert J. Nock Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten.
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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  • Ray Kroc Creativity is a highfalutin word for the work I have to do between now and Tuesday.
    Ray Kroc
    American businessman, founder McDonalds (1902 - 1984)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Culture is one thing and varnish is another.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ben Stein Darwinism is still very much alive, utterly dominating biology. Despite the fact that no one has ever been able to prove the creation of a single distinct species by Darwinist means, Darwinism dominates the academy and the media.
    Darwinism: The Imperialism of Biology?. Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • David Mitchell Dead things show you what you’ll be too one day.
    David Mitchell
    English novelist and screenwriter (1969 - )
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  • Gordon Graham Decision is a sharp knife that cuts or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was clean and straight; indecision, a dull one that hacks and tears and leaves ragged edges behind it.
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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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  • 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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  • Albert Einstein Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Stephen Hawking Earth might one day soon resemble the planet Venus.
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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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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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Endurance and to be able to endure is the first lesson a child should learn because it's the one they will most need to know.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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