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"No matter where or what, there are makers, takers, and fakers."
-Robert Heinlein


"To demand 'sense' is the hallmark of nonsense. Nature does not make sense. Nothing makes sense."
-Ayn Rand


"Everybody's a self-made man; but only the successful ones are ever willing to admit it."
-unknown


"For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe... Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end."
-H. L. Mencken


"It is easier to be critical than correct."
-Benjamin Disraeli


"Life has no rehearsals, only performances."
-unknown


"The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it."
-unknown


"Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson


"Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind."
-John F. Kennedy


"'He means well' is useless unless he does well."
-Plautus


"Only the winners decide what were war crimes."
-Gary Wills


"The most common of all antagonisms arises from a man's taking a seat beside you on the train, a seat to which he is completely entitled."
-Robert Benchley


"Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them."
-Anne Landers


"It is impossible to love and to be wise."
-Francis Bacon


"Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on lunch."
-unknown


"The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was."
-unknown

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"It doesn't matter what temperature the room is; it's always room-temperature."
-unknown


"A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of."
-Burt Bacharach


"We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong."
-Bill Vaughn


"A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one."
-Mary Kay Ash


"To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult."
-Plutarch


"When ideas fail, words come in very handy."
-Goethe


"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."
-Albert Einstein


"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do."
-Dale Carnegie


"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."
-Thomas Edison


"A single fact can spoil a good argument."
-unknown


"There are two kinds of people in the world: those who believe there are two kinds of people and those who don't."
-Benchley's Law of Distinction


"Even if you are on the right track you'll get run over if you just sit there!"
-unknown


"It's a very funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it."
-William Somerset Maugham


"Time flies whether you're having fun or not."
-Mary Engelbreit


"Don't worry over what other people are thinking about you. They're too busy worrying over what you are thinking about them."
-unknown


"A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election."
-Bill Vaughan


"The graveyards are full of indespensible men."
-Charles de Gaulle


"Rudeness is a weak man's imitation of strength."
-Eric Hoffer


"One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing."
-Oscar Wilde


"Nothing knits man to man like the frequent passage from hand to hand of cash."
-Walter Richard Sickert


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