- Karl Marx
- The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
- Oliver Wendell
- A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.
- Gerhard Gschwandtne
- View a negative experience in your life like you'd look at a photo negative. A single negative can create an unlimited number of positive prints.
- Soren Kierkegaard
- People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid
- Henry Ford
- When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
- A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
- Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
- One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.
- Mark Twain
- Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most.
- Sigmund Freud
- The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
- Gallagher
- I wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence. There's a knob called 'brightness', but it doesn't work.
- Oscar Wilde
- To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
- Walter Bagehot
- The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
- Helen Keller
- Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.
- Vincent Van Gogh
- Your profession is not what brings home your paycheck. Your profession is what you were put on earth to do with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.
- Ann Landers
- What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
- What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has, or how he is regarded by others.
- Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
- Leon Battista Alberti
- When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.
- Isaac Asimov
- Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
- Lena Horne
- It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.
- John F. Kennedy
- Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.
- Thomas Jefferson
- Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
- Thomas J. Watson
- Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't as all. You can be discouraged by failure - or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember, that's where you will find success.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seeded refusal of that which others have made of us.
- Claude Chabrol
- "Nous vivons une époque où les pizzas arrivent plus vite que la police" - We live in an era where pizzas show up faster than the police
- Luciano Pavarotti
- People think I'm disciplined. It is not discipline. It is devotion. There is a great difference.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.
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