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Experience: Something that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Variant: Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

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When you come right down to it, the secret of the whole thing is the question of supply and demand. No matter what business you are in, if you haven't got the demand you won't get the price for your product.

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Of the humorist Henry Clapp:
His talent was essentially that of the French Feuilletonistes — bright, keen, and witty, but unsubstantial and ephemeral.

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Two cannibals were eating a clown – one said to the other, 'Does he taste funny to you?'
Variant: Why don’t cannibals eat clowns? Because they taste funny!

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The executive told his secretary: Answer the letter for me, but be careful not to loose my temper.

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If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.

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The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night's sleep.

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Isn't it funny that day by day, nothing changes but when you look back, everything is different?

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If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
Often misattributed to John Quincy Adams

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Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few pages you're doomed.

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Those who dance are considered insane by those who can't hear the music.
Variant: They who dance are thought mad by those who hear not the music.

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Success is what happens when 10,000 hours of preparation meet with one moment of opportunity.

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When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.
Often attributed to Leonardo da Vinci

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But success takes care of itself. Faults in inventing are the things to look for. Trouble, honestly faced, is the beginning of progress.

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If life is properly lived and character is made and acted out "success" takes care of itself.

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Sport, not winning, is the chief end of games. How the game is played is of far more consequence than who wins it.

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Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
Often misattributed to Eleanor Roosevelt

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Science Finds - Industry Applies - Man Conforms.

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To call such a tabulation statistics, is like calling the map of a November shower of meteors a text book on astronomy.

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Let conversations cease. Let laughter depart. This is the place where death delights to help the living.
Often attributed to Giovanni Battista Morgagni

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Atheism is a natural and inseparable part of Marxism, of the theory and practice of scientific socialism.

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We have no Property! We have no Wives! No Children! We have no City! No Country!

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A want of sympathy on the part of the nurse is like a perpetual cold bath to a patient.

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He [man] cannot but feel a sense of pleasure, and even of power, when the telescope reveals to his gaze not only the worlds that constitute his own so-called Solar System, but the suns that light up the borders of the Universe, system upon system, sun upon sun, covering the unbounded area almost as thickly as the daisies cover a meadow in spring.

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In the old Telescope's tube we sit, And the shades of the past around us flit; His requiem sing we, with shout and with din, While the old year goes out, and the new one comes in. Chorus of youths and virgins. Merrily, merrily, let us all sing, And make the old Telescope rattle and ring.

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