“Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn’t the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment.” — Robert Benchley
Quotations
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“Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.” — Abraham Lincoln
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“Medicine makes people ill, mathematics makes them sad, and theology makes them sinful.” — Martin Luther
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“Honesty is praised and starves.” — Juvenal
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“Contentment is natural wealth; luxury is artificial poverty.” — Socrates
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“Where there’s a will there’s a won’t.” — Ambrose Bierce
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“The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.” — Tacitus
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“For God’s sake, go down to reception and get rid of a lunatic who’s down there. He says he’s got a machine for seeing by wireless! Watch him — he may have a razor on him.”
— Editor of the London Daily Express, refusing to see John Logie Baird, inventor of television, 1925
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“I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.” — Elbert Hubbard
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“There are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.” — Alfred North Whitehead