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We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office-Aesop
Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed-Michael Pritchard
Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt-George Sewell
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -- nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance-Franklin D. Roosevelt
Men have become the tools of their tools-Henry David Thoreau
The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved-Confucius
The more things change, the more they remain... insane-Michael Fry and T. Lewis
The person who knows 'how' will always have a job. The person who knows 'why' will always be his boss-Diane Ravitch
My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there-Indira Gandhi
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues-Elizabeth Taylor
An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness-Elbert Hubbard
Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes-Oscar Wilde
The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity-John F. Kennedy
For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three-Alice Kahn
Give someone a fish and you feed them for a day. Teach someone to use the Internet and you won't see them for weeks
Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined-Johnny Carson (1925-2005)
Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out.-Michael Korda
Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date-Dale Carnegie
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work-Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future-Niels Bohr
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose-Bill Gates
We've done some good work, but all of these products become obsolete so fast...It will be some finite number of years, and I don't know the number?before our doom comes-Bill Gates
A really great man is known by three signs...generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success-Otto von Bismarck
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it-Thomas Jefferson
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety-Benjamin Franklin
But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever-John Adams
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty-John F. Kennedy
One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing is to supply light and not heat-Woodrow Wilson
In a heated argument we are apt to lose sight of the truth-Publilius Syrus
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers-William Penn
It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow-Craig Bruce
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work-Peter Drucker
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier-Bill Gates
The best strategy in life is diligence-Chinese proverb
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man-George Bernard Shaw
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted-Albert Einstein
Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security-Edmund Burke
In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it-Robert Heinlein
Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats-Howard Aiken
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important-Bertrand Russell
The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity-Winston Churchill
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest-Isaac Asimov

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