Archive for November, 2007

Harry Golden on Jobs & Working

Sunday, November 25th, 2007

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

- Harry Golden

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Alvin Toffler on Society

Sunday, November 25th, 2007

One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we’ll need a new definition.

- Alvin Toffler

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Henry Ward Beecher on Nature

Saturday, November 24th, 2007

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.

- Henry Ward Beecher

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Thomas Mann on War

Saturday, November 24th, 2007

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

- Thomas Mann

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Grace Murray Hopper on Technology

Friday, November 23rd, 2007

At the end of about a week, I called back and said, I need something to compare this to. Could I please have a microsecond?

- Grace Murray Hopper

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Larry King on Success

Friday, November 23rd, 2007

Those who have succeeded at anything and don’t mention luck are kidding themselves.

- Larry King

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John F. Kennedy on History

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

- John F. Kennedy

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John W. Gardner on Society

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.

- John W. Gardner

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Joyce Brothers on Love

Wednesday, November 21st, 2007

The best proof of love is trust.

- Joyce Brothers

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Rupert Murdoch on Business

Wednesday, November 21st, 2007

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

- Rupert Murdoch

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