Quotes 21 till 40 of 190.
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All of us, you, your children, your neighbors and their children are everyday geniuses, even though the fact is unnoticed and unremembered by everyone. That's probably because school hasn't encouraged us to notice what's hidden inside us waiting for the right environment to express itself.
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All the things you think you should have done that you didn't do, and all of the things that you shouldn't have done, accept them. You did (or did not) do them. That's reality. That's happened. No changing the past.
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An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
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And when I was young, did I ever tell you, I always wanted to get inside a book and never come out again? I loved reading so much I wanted to be a part of it, and there were some books I could have stayed in for ever.
First Light (1996) 50 -
Anyone informed that the universe is expanding and contracting in pulsations of eighty billion years has a right to ask, ''What's in it for me?''
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As I looked out into the night sky, across all those infinite stars, it made me realize how insignificant they are.
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As the band got more successful, it was increasingly difficult to get people to take a risk with something that might jeopardize their livelihood. [On Genesis]
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Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
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Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation.
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By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.
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Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
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Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
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Concentration is the key to economic results. No other principles of effectiveness is violated as constantly today as the basic principle of concentration.
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Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy.
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Considered in its entirety, psychoanalysis won't do. It's an end product, moreover, like a dinosaur or a zeppelin; no better theory can ever be erected on its ruins, which will remain for ever one of the saddest and strangest of all landmarks in the history of twentieth-century thought.
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Decision making is the specific executive task.
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Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.
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Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
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Divide your movements into easy-to-do sections. If you fail, divide again.
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