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  • Al Franken The thing that interests me least about the radio business is the radio business. But I've had to learn a little bit about it. It's not rocket science: You get ratings, that's good.
    Al Franken
    American comedian, politician and author (1951 - )
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  • Ben Horowitz The thing that's confusing for investors is that founders don't know how to be CEO. I didn't know how to do the job when I was a CEO. Founder CEOs don't know how to be CEOs, but it doesn't mean they can't learn. The question is... can the founder learn that job and can they tolerate all mistakes they will make doing it?
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Anita Dunn The third lesson and tip actually comes from two of my favorite political philosophers: Mao Tse-tung and Mother Theresa - not often coupled with each other, but the two people I turn to most to basically deliver a simple point which is 'you're going to make choices; you're going to challenge; you're going to say why not; you're going to figure out how to do things that have never been done before.
    Anita Dunn
     
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  • Aldous Huxley The third petition of the Lord's Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone's will be done but their own.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Hannah Arendt The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • Josh Billings The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Henry S. Haskins The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively, but says nothing.
    Henry S. Haskins
    American stockbroker and man of letters (1875 - 1957)
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  • Agnes Repplier The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
    Agnes Repplier
    American writer and social criticus (1855 - 1950)
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  • Thomas Carlyle The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Heywood Brown The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
    Heywood Brown
     
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  • Benjamin E. Mays The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our complacency; not in our doing too much, but rather in our doing too little; not in our living above our ability, but rather in our living below our capacities.
    Benjamin E. Mays
    American Baptist minister and civil rights leader (1894 - 1984)
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  • Oscar Wilde The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • William Blake The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Josh Billings The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Bill Shankly The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.
    Bill Shankly
    Scottish football player and manager (1913 - )
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  • Mark Twain The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Olive Schreiner The troubles of the young are soon over; they leave no external mark. If you wound the tree in its youth the bark will quickly cover the gash; but when the tree is very old, peeling the bark off, and looking carefully, you will see the scar there still. All that is buried is not dead.
    Olive Schreiner
    South African author and anti-war campaigner (1855 - 1920)
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  • Frederick W. Robertson The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.
    Frederick W. Robertson
    English divine (1816 - 1853)
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  • Pope John XXIII The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.
    Pope John XXIII
    Catholic Pope from 1958-1963 (1881 - 1963)
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