Richard Livingstone

There is no virtue in being uncritical nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism is only the burying beetle that gets rid of what is dead, and, since the world lives by creative and constructive forces, and not by negation and destruction, it is better to grow up in the company of prophets than of critics.

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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible.

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George Saunders

Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.

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Albert Schweitzer

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

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Maya Angelou

In order to be profoundly dishonest, a person must have one of two qualities either he is unscrupulously ambitious, or he is unswervingly egocentric.

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Wernher Von Braun

We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.

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Ronald Reagan

Some of your countrymen were unable to distinguish between their native dislike for war and the stainless patriotism of those who suffered its scars. But there has been a rethinking and now we can say to you, and say as a nation, thank you for your courage.

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Raymond Loewy

Between two products equal in price, function and quality, the better looking will out sell the other.

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Julius Caesar, (attributed)

I am going to Spain to fight an army without a general, and thence to the East to fight a general without an army.

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Napoleon Bonaparte

Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.

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