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"If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away."

Victor Hugo

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The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.

Casey Stengel (1890 - 1975)

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"So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent."

Sir Winston Churchill

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I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.

Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)

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"A new way of thinking has become the necessary condition for responsible living and acting. If we maintain obsolete values and beliefs, a fragmented consciousness and self-centered spirit, we will continue to hold onto outdated goals and behaviors."

Dalai Lama

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Margaret Mead

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"Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn't really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home.

David Frost

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"I should rather labor as another's serf, in the home of a man without fortune, one whose livelihood was meager, than rule over all the departed dead."

-Achilles

Homer

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The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

Willa Cather (1873 - 1947)