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Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible - or even sinful - that you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch a pack of… — Paul MacCready
He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Passion. The life of an entrepreneur is occasionally exhilarating, and almost always exhausting. Only unbridled passion for the concept is likely to see you through… — Tom Peters
No man who has lived through a temporary spiritual experience is ever likely to forget it. His days will be haunted until he sets out… — Paul Brunton
The significance of a fact is relative to [the general body of scientific] knowledge. To say that a fact is significant in science, is to… — Bertrand Russell
We find it hard to picture to ourselves the state of mind of a man of older days who firmly believed that the Earth was… — Anatole France
What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to… — Simone Weil
Each person must decide for himself what he wants each day. As a leader, I will expose you to the options and the likely consequences… — Wayne Dyer
The investor's chief problem - and even his worst enemy - is likely to be himself. — Benjamin Graham
The most likely cause of a man's depression is his failure to be the man he thinks he should be — Frank Pittman
The more wary you are of danger, the more likely you are to meet it. — Jean de La Fontaine
In a few hundred years, when the history of our time will be written from a long-term perspective, it is likely that the most important… — Peter Drucker
The maxim, that governments ought to train the people in the way in which they should go, sounds well. But is there any reason for… — Thomas B. Macaulay
Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely. — Thomas B. Macaulay
The most important and visible outcropping of the action bias in excellent companies is their willingness to try things out, to experiment. If you wait… — Tom Peters
The police can't stop an intruder, mugger, or stalker from hurting you. They can pursue him only after he has hurt or killed you. Protecting… — Harry Browne
He who regulates everything by laws, is more likely to arouse vices than reform them. — Baruch Spinoza
Nobody can be trusted with unlimited power. The more power a regime has, the more likely people will be killed. This is a major reason… — Rudolph Rummel
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. Genuine ignorance is profitable because it… — John Dewey
Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a… — Sydney J. Harris

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