Favourite Quotes - Page 3

• When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.

  Norm Crosby

  Funny, Hilarious, Smart

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• There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Insane people are always sure they're just fine. It's only the sane people who are willing to admit they're crazy.

  Nora Ephron

  Depression, Crazy, Insane Person

  "What a piece of work is man!: Camp's unfamiliar quotations from 2000 B.C. to the present", (p. 320), 1989.

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• All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Men, Differences

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• Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Science, Technology, Telescopes

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  I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

  Kurt Cobain

  Love, Inspirational, Tattoo

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

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• The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.

  Bertrand Russell

  Challenges, Way, Problem

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• The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it.

  Dudley Moore

  Views, Mirrors, Safety

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• If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.

  Emma Goldman

  Political, Voting, Nerd

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• If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Sunset, Firsts, Succeed

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• The best way to get a better answer is to start asking a better question.

  Tony Robbins

  Asking, Answers, Way

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  If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Funny, Life, Witty

  "Tallulah: My Autobiography". Book by Tallulah Bankhead, 1952.

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• A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Wise

  Walden ch. 2 (1854)

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  Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

  Robert Frost

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  "The Road Not Taken" l. 16 (1916)

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• A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

  George Wald

  Wisdom, Science, Knowing

  Foreword to L. J. Henderson, The Fitness of the Environment (1958)

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• There is no truth. There is only perception.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Truth, Perspective, Perception

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• I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.

  Lily Tomlin

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

  Calvin Trillin

  Funny, Mothers Day, Mom

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• The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.

  Charles Bukowski

  Trust, Order, Differences

  Charles Bukowski (2013). “The Most Beautiful Woman in Town”, p.190, City Lights Books

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• Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fashion, Teenage, Laughing

  1854 Walden, or Life in the Woods,'Economy'.

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• It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Self, Firsts, Masters

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  If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 8 Jan. 2001. One of "Rumsfeld's Rules."

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• Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining?

  George C. Wallace

  Funny, Military, Air

  "Absurdities, Scandals & Stupidities in Politics". Book by Hakeem Shittu and Callie Query, p. 106, 2006.

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• There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

  Oscar Wilde

  Book, Reading, Writing

  The Picture of Dorian Gray preface (1891)

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• Silence is so accurate.

  Mark Rothko

  Silence, Serenity, Accurate

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