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The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong than to be always right by having no ideas at all.

Edward de Bono
Lateral Thinking






People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they've done.

Cullen Hightower






I learned there were troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead, some from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have trouble with me.

Dr. Suess






It may be the rooster that does all the crowing but it's the hen that delivers the goods.

Jim Hightower






When you want to walk in the path of your hero, first remember that not all great men had great lives, and the path you are following will be a rocky journey.

Engel






The amount of ones intelligence means nothing, a man isn't scaled on his amount of smartness but the smartness he has when being tested for it. Some of the greatest thinkers in the world fall short of their high rank because of the high stress and loss of thought when being given the test of it.

Engel






On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.

Chuck Palahnuik
Fight Club






Yes, there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run, there's still time to change the road you're on.

Led Zeppelin
Stairway to Heaven






All actions are based on intentions.

Prophet Muhammad






You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes you get what you need.

Mick Jagger






The way to test a man's sincerity is to serve him a bad cup of coffee. If he doesn't comment, he is not to be trusted.

Lilian Jackson Braun






The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

Bertrand Russell
The Good Life






Trust... but verify.

Ronald Reagan






The loser, when a game of dice is done,
remains behind reviewing every roll
sadly, and sadly wiser, and alone.

Dante Alighieri
The Purgatorio, Canto VI






The answers are all out there, we just need to ask the right questions.

AIDs documentary






In life there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what you want, the other is getting it.

Oscar Wilde






My enemy is my greatest teacher.

Dalai Lama






The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time.

Abraham Lincoln






Promise is one thing. Fulfilling that promise is quite another.

Sir Alex Ferguson






An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.

Mahatma Gandhi






One should guard against believing the great masses to be more stupid than they actually are.

Adolf Hitler






Always get the laziest man to do the job. For he will get it done the quickest so he can continue to be lazy.

Ryan P.Quirk






When you understand a species art, you understand the species.

Grand Admiral Thrawn






If you don't succeed, you run the risk of failure.

George W. Bush






To not know is acceptable, to accept not knowing is foolish.






You are what you pretend to be, so be careful what you pretend to be.

Kurt Vonnegurt






It is right to be content with what we have, but never with what we are.

Sir James MacIntosh






Far best is he who is himself all-wise, and he, too, good who listens to wise words;
But whoso is not wise or lays to hear another's wisdom is a useless man.

Hesiod






Consider how the person feel about what they want to do, not how you feel about it and you will feel better at the end.

Cecilia Mojica






Swallowing truth without chewing will probably choke you.

H. Kerkhoff






When two children argue, let the smartest one stop first.






Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

Scottish Proverb






Life is wasted on the living.

Douglas Adams
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy






Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where backbone ought to be.

Clementine Paddleford






The individual who no longer has a rigid mind has found freedom. Life can be so easy. Refuse to let go and you are a person drowning; the more you struggle, the faster you sink.

George Ohsawa






If Fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyway.






Use your fear... it can take you to the place where you store your courage.

Amelia Earhart






The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.

General Omar N. Bradley






Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.

Adlai Stevenson






Mend your speech a little, Lest it may mar your fortunes.

William Shakespeare
King Lear. Act 1. Sc. 1.






Pure morality is only an instinctive adjustment which the soul makes.

D. H. Lawrence






Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

Salvador Dali






Of course it's not easy. If it were easy it wouldn't be called a 'shortcut'. It would just be 'The Way'...

Road Trip






Sometimes, the road less traveled... is less traveled for a reason.

Jerry Seinfeld
Seinfeld






It's the fear of what comes after the doing that makes the doing hard to do.

Angels in America
Tony Kushner






Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.

William Shakespeare
Hamlet act I sc III






The plural of anecdote is not data.

Roger Brinner






One should not worry about losing his keys, as long as he can remember what they are supposed to unlock...

Karon Garon






Times don't change. Men do.

Sam Levenson






Change your attitude to the things that bother you and you will be aware of them.

Mark Aurelius
Cezar








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