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"In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later."
Harold Geneen
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"An apology is the superglue of life. It can repair just about anything."
Lynn Johnston
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"Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash."
Leonard Cohen
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"The greatest man in history was the poorest."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"I don't pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages."
Robert Bosch
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"A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as for the body."
Margaret Fuller
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"Television is the most perfect democracy. You sit there with your remote control and vote."
Aaron Brown
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"The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate."
Douglas Engelbart
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"Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air."
Henry Anatole Grunwald
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"Never lie when the truth is more profitable."
Stanislaw Lec
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"Advertising men and politicians are dangerous if they are separated. Together they are diabolical."
Phillip Adams
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"The more we try to rest ourselves from our egos, the deeper we sink into it."
Emile M. Cioran
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"I laugh, I love, I hope, I try, I hurt, I need, I fear, I cry. And I know you do the same things too, so we're really not that different, me and you."
Colin Raye
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"Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy."
Chogyam Trungpa
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"Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some."
Charles Dickens
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"Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding."
Albert Einstein
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"Tolerance is held to be a condition of mind which is encouraged by, and is necessary for, civilization."
Arthur Keith
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"They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them."
Mahatma Gandhi
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"There are three secrets to managing. The first secret is have patience. The second is be patient. And the third most important secret is patience."
Chuck Tanner
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"Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research."
Wilson Mizner
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"Being comfortable isn't the way to learn to expand your abilities."
Thomas Perry
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"Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in."
Alan Alda
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"A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg."
Samuel Butler
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"A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad."
Albert Camus
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"Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed."
Mason Cooley
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"The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't."
Henry Ward Beecher
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"Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way."
Aaron Allston
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"Well, I was lucky enough to be involved in about 19 failures at an early age, so I'm realistic about the success I'm having and how quickly it can go away. What's important is to be smart about it."
Matthew Perry
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"It isn't the original scandal that gets people in the most trouble - it's the attempted cover-up."
Tom Petri
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"Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time."
Jean Cocteau
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