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  • Harold S. Geneen It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.
    Harold S. Geneen
    American Accountant, Industrialist, CEO, ITT (1910 - 1997)
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  • Sigmund Freud Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Buddha Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Joseph Addison Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Arthur Laffer Let me just try to give you sort of the intuitive one here on the stimulus funds. If you have a two-person economy - let's imagine we have two farms, and that's the whole world, just two farms. If one of those farmers gets unemployment benefits, who do you think pays for him? Am I going way over your heads today?
    Arthur Laffer
    American economist and author (1940 - )
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle li is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Sister Corita Kent Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed.
    Sister Corita Kent
    American artist, educator, and advocate for social justice
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  • Gerald G. Jampolsky Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.
    Gerald G. Jampolsky
    American psychiatrist, Lecturer, writer (1925 - 2020)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Midrash Many candles can be kindled from one candle without diminishing it.
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Bertolt Brecht Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • George Eliot More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Woody Allen More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Charles Simmons Much of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.
    Charles Simmons
    American editor and novelist (1798 - 1856)
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  • Henry Wheeler Shaw My son, observe the postage stamp! Its usefulness depends upon its ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.
    Henry Wheeler Shaw
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Epictetus Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Hannah Arendt No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge No one does anything from a single motive.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Marilyn Monroe No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.
    Marilyn Monroe
    American actress (1926 - 1962)
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