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• 'Totally mad,' he said, 'utter nonsense. But we'll do it because it's brilliant nonsense.'

  Douglas Adams

  Mad, Statistics, Nonsense

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.304, Pan Macmillan

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• Shocking is easy. Shockingly brilliant, a bit more challenging.

  Lee Clow

  Challenges, Easy, Shocking

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• Truly brilliant marketing happens when you take something most people think of as a weakness and reposition it so people think of it as a strength.

  Reed Hastings

  Success, Business, Thinking

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• I've never understood musicians who don't enjoy doing promotional interviews. I just can't believe it. I always think, 'Your life must have been so brilliant before you were in a band.'

  Noel Gallagher

  Believe, Thinking, Musician

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• I did drugs for 18 years and I never got that bad as to say, 'You know what? I think the Kaiser Chiefs are brilliant.'

  Noel Gallagher

  Thinking, Years, Drug

  "Mark Ronson: 'Jay-Z is teaching me to play Wonderwall'" by Sean Michaels, www.theguardian.com. August 18, 2008.

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• I believe food is the most brilliant invention ever.

  Helena Christensen

  Believe, I Believe, Invention

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There are many really stupid ideas that wind up being brilliant, if you can implement them.

  Gene Simmons

  Inspirational, Stupid, Wind

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• No growth hack, brilliant marketing idea, or sales team can save you long term if you don't have a sufficiently good product.

  Sam Altman

  Team, Ideas, Long

  "There's Only One Way To Make Your Company Really Grow" by Jay Yarow, www.businessinsider.com. December 04, 2013.

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• Do not tolerate brilliant jerks. The cost to teamwork is too high.

  Reed Hastings

  Teamwork, Cost, Jerk

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• . . . planning a brilliant menu and preparing it beautifully doesn't guarantee a recipe for success.

  Kathy Lette

  Guarantees, Recipes, Planning

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• Einstein's relativity work is a magnificent mathematical garb which fascinates, dazzles and makes people blind to the underlying errors. The theory is like a beggar clothed in purple whom ignorant people take for a king... its exponents are brilliant men but they are metaphysicists rather than scientists.

  Nikola Tesla

  Kings, Ignorance, Men

  The New York Times, (p. 23, c.8), July 11, 1935.

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• No amount of scholastic attainment, of able and profound exposition of brilliant and stirring eloquence can atone for the absence of a deep impassioned sympathetic love for human souls.

  David Brainerd

  Profound, Soul, Able

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• Life is the only game in which the object of the game is to learn the rules.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Inspirational, Life, Games

  "The Wisdom Of Ashleigh Brilliant" by Henry Alford, www.ashleighbrilliant.com.

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• The key to getting a reputation for being brilliant is actually being brilliant, not just acting like you are.

  Seth Godin

  Keys, Acting, Reputation

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• Let’s never forget that whatever brilliant ideas you have or hear, that the opposite may also be true.

  Derek Sivers

  Motivation, Inspiration, Opposites

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• Almost nothing beautiful or brilliant happens unless a person has thought about it a lot.

  Eric Maisel

  Beautiful, Persons, Happens

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• My biggest problem is what to do about all the things I cant do anything about.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Problem, Cant

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• I absolutely love this. Top notch art and scripting encapsulating a brilliant idea.

  Leinil Francis Yu

  Art, Ideas, Notches

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• (Mariners) have written one of its most brilliant chapters. They have delivered the goods when and where needed in every theater of operations and across every ocean in the biggest, the most difficult and dangerous job ever undertaken. As time goes on, there will be greater public understanding of our merchant's fleet record during this war.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Jobs, War, Ocean

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• It is certain that the greatest poets, orators, statesmen, and historians, men of the most brilliant and imposing talents, have labored as hard, if not harder, than day laborers; and that the most obvious reason why they have been superior to other men is that they have taken more pains than other men.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Pain, Taken, Men

  Orison Swett Marden (1907). “The Optimistic Life”

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• There is no idea so brilliant or original that a sufficiently-untalented writer can't screw it up.

  Raymond E. Feist

  Writing, Ideas, Untalented

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• It is my contention that a really great novel is made with a knife and not a pen. A novelist must have the intestinal fortitude to cut out even the most brilliant passage so long as it doesn't advance the story.

  Frank Yerby

  Writing, Cutting, Knives

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• To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist - the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with one's vinegar.

  Oscar Wilde

  Food, Oil, Cooking

  1880 Vera, or The Nihilists, act 2.

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• To Helen Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary, way-worn wanderer bore To his own native shore. On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy Naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greece, And the grandeur that was Rome. Lo, in yon brilliant window-niche How statue-like I see thee stand, The agate lamp within thy hand, Ah! Psyche, from the regions which Are Holy Land!

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Beauty, Home, Hair

  "To Helen" l. 8 (1831)

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• Sincerity becomes apparent. From being apparent, it becomes manifest. From being manifest, it becomes brilliant. Brilliant, it affects others. Affecting others, they are changed by it. Changed by it, they are transformed. It is only he who is possessed of the most complete sincerity that can exist under heaven, who can transform.

  Confucius

  Heaven, Influence, Sincerity

  Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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