Beauty - Grace Quotes - Emerson

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“Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.”Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 82) U.S. essayist, poet, and orator

Opinions Quotes - William Blake

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“The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.”William Blake (1757 – 1827) English poet and painter

Imagination Quotes - Simone Weil

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“Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.”Simone Weil (1909 – 43) French philosopher and mystic

Innovation Quotes - Peter Bonfield

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“Doing the things we do now and doing them better, cheaper and faster will take us so far. But it will not take us far enough. We're going to have to do new things in new ways.”Peter Bonfield (b. 1944) British C.E.O. of British Telecom

Leadership Quotes - Gail Sheehy

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“The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.”Gail Sheehy (b. 1937) U.S. writer and lecturer

Character Quotes - Edward Wilmot Blyden

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“If you are not yourself, if you surrender your personality, you have nothing left to give the world. You have no pleasure, no use, nothing which will attract and charm me, for by the suppression of your individuality, you lose your distinctive character.”Edward Wilmot Blyden (1832 – 1912) Liberian statesman

Worry - Money Quotes - Tillie Olsen

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“Better mankind born without mouths and stomachs than always to worry about money to buy, to shop, to fix, to cook, to wash, to clean.”Tillie Olsen (1913 - 2007) U.S. writer

Power - Love Quotes - Martin Luther King

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“Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love.”Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929 – 68) U.S. civil rights leader and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize

Humor - Fools Quotes - Florence King

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“I don't suffer fools, and I like to see fools suffer.”Florence King (b. 1936) U.S. novelist and columnist

Experience Quotes - Lyman Bryson

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“The error of youth is to believe that intelligence is a substitute for experience, while the error of age is to believe that experience is a substitute for intelligence.”Lyman Bryson (1888 – 1959) U.S. educator

Babies - Politics Quotes - WS Gilbert

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“I often think it's comicalHow Nature always does contriveThat every boy and every galThat's born into the world aliveIs either a little LiberalOr else a little Conservative!”W. S. Gilbert (1836 – 1911) British dramatist and librettist

Self Praise Quotes - Samuel Butler

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“The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.”Samuel Butler (1835 – 1902) British writer

Long Life Quotes - Jonathan Swift

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“Every man desires to live long but no man would be old.”Jonathan Swift (1667 – 1745) Irish writer and satirist

Funny Dreams Quotes - Max Beerbohm

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“Have you noticed ... there is never any third act in a nightmare? They bring you to a climax of terror and then leave you there. They are the work of poor dramatists.”Max Beerbohm (1872 – 1956) English writer

Funny Quotes - Mistress - James Goldsmith

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“When you marry your mistress, you create a job vacancy.”James Goldsmith (1933 – 97) British entrepreneur and politician

Woman Quotes - Oscar Wilde

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“Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.”Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900) Irish playwright, novelist, and poet

Letter Writing Quotes - Evelyn Waugh

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“Beware of writing to me. I always answer ... My father spent the last 20 years of his life writing letters. If someone thanked him for a wedding present, he thanked them for thanking him and there was no end to the exchange but death.”Evelyn Waugh (1903 – 66) British satirist and novelist

Government Quotes - Charles Frankel

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“Whatever happens in government could have happened differently, and it usually would have been better if it had.”Charles Frankel (1917 – 79) U.S. philosopher

Funny Food Quotes - Laurence Peter

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“The noblest of all dogs is the hot-dog; it feeds the hand that bites it.”Laurence J. Peter (1919 – 90) Canadian educator and writer

Human Race Quotes - GK Chesterton

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“The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up.”G. K. Chesterton (1874 – 1936) British novelist and journalist

Funny Hope Quotes - Adrian Mitchell

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“When I am sad and wearyWhen I think all hope has goneWhen I walk along High HolbornI think of you with nothing on.”Adrian Mitchell (b. 1932) English poet and dramatist

Forgetfulness Quotes - Italo Svevo

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“There are three things I always forget. Names, faces, and – the third I can't remember.”Italo Svevo (1861 – 1928) Italian novelist

Conscience Quotes - Logan Pearsall Smith

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“Most people sell their souls and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.”Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 – 1946) British essayist and critic

Funny Quotes - Atheism - Woody Allen

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“To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.”Woody Allen (b. 1935) U.S. humorist, actor and film director

Employees Quotes - Steve Jobs

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“I found that there were these incredibly great people at doing certain things, and you couldn't replace one of these people with 50 average people. They could just do stuff that no number of average people could do.”Steve Jobs (b. 1955) U.S. co-founder and C.E.O. of Apple Computer, Inc.

Newspaper Quotes - Adlai Stevenson

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“Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction.”Adlai E. Stevenson (1900 – 65) U.S. politician

Honesty Quotes - Anton Chekhov

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“You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.”Anton Chekhov (1860 – 1904) Russian playwright and short-story writer

Leadership Quotes - Wilbur Creech

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“The leader is not just a scorekeeper. He is responsible for creating something new and better.”Wilbur L. Creech (1927 - 2003) U.S. general of the Air Force

Planning Quotes - Peter F Drucker

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“Long-range planning does not deal with future decisions. It deals with the future of present decisions.”Peter F. Drucker (1909 - 2005) U.S. management consultant and author

Funny Opera Quotes - Ed Gardner

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“Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding he sings.”Ed Gardner (1901 – 63) U.S. broadcaster

Fame - Character Quotes - OJ Simpson

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“The only thing that endures is character. Fame and wealth – all that is illusion.”O. J. Simpson (b. 1947) U.S. football player and actor

Wisdom Quotes - William Cowper

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“Knowledge dwellsIn heads replete with thoughts of other men;Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.”William Cowper (1731 – 1800) British poet and hymnodist

Old Age Quotes - Somerset Maugham

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“What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.”W. Somerset Maugham (1874 – 1965) British novelist and short story writer

Mistakes Quotes - Oscar Wilde

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“Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover, when it is too late, that the only thing one never regrets are one's mistakes.”Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900) Irish playwright, novelist, and poet

Funny Kissing Quotes - Rudyard Kipling

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“Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was – like eating an egg without salt.”Rudyard Kipling (1865 – 1936) British winner of the Nobel Prize in literature

Communication Quotes - Mary J Cronin

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“Just as 'location, location, location' defines value in real estate, in business today it's connectivity that equals competitiveness.”Mary J. Cronin (b. 1947) U.S. business author

Sincerity Quotes - James Russell Lowell

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“Sincerity is impossible unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretense of it saps the very foundation of character.”James Russell Lowell (1819 – 91) U.S. poet, satirist, and diplomat

Market Research Quotes - Joseph Heller

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“People in the Market Research Department ... are not expected to change reality but merely to find it if they can and suggest ingenious ways of disguising it ... converting whole truths into half truths and half truths into whole ones.”Joseph Heller (1923 – 99) U.S. novelist and satirist

Persistence Quotes - Kemmons Wilson

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“Remember, a person who wins success may have been counted out many times before. He wins because he refuses to give up.”Kemmons Wilson (1913 – 2003) U.S. founder of Holiday Inn hotels

Delegate Interfere Quotes - James Burke

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“If you are having as much fun running a big corporation as you did running a piece of it, then you are probably interfering too much with the people who really make it happen.” [read business fable]James Burke (b. 1925) U.S. C.E.O. of Johnson & Johnson

Delegating Quotes - Bertolt Brecht

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“The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for the Emperor can actually do nothing.” [read business fable]Bertolt Brecht (1898 – 1956) German playwright and poet

Quotes of the Month (Oct 2007) - Battle of Wits - Chiasmus

Quotes of the Month (Battle of Wits - Chiasmus)Chiasmus: two otherwise parallel phrases with the second being a reverse order of the first. A famous illustration is Cicero's “One should eat to live, not live to eat.”This month's gathering saw the most famous wits and personalities vying for the Champion of Chiasmus title. The judges are none other than yourselves. Hear them out and support

Money - Fools Quotes - Walter Winchell

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“Money sometimes makes fools of important persons, but it may also make important persons of fools.”Walter Winchell (1897 - 1972) U.S. media commentator

Progress Change Quotes - Whitehead

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“The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.”Alfred North Whitehead (1861 – 1947) British philosopher and mathematician

Giving Love Quotes - Amy Carmichael

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“You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.”Amy Carmichael (1867 – 1951) Irish missionary and author

Friendship Business Quotes - Rockefeller

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“A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.”John D. Rockefeller, Jr. (1874 – 1960) U.S. executive and philanthropist

Funny Wife Quotes - Jim Backus

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“Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.”Jim Backus (1913 – 89) U.S. film actor

Woman Clothing Quotes - Edgar Howe

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“A man has his clothes made to fit him; a woman makes herself fit her clothes.”Edgar Watson Howe (1853 – 1937) U.S. novelist and editor

Win - Lose - Quotes - Woodrow Wilson

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“I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose!”Woodrow Wilson (1856 – 1924) U.S. president

Lead - Example Quotes - Bill Clinton

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“As we have throughout this century, we will lead with the power of our example, but be prepared, when necessary, to make an example of our power.”Bill Clinton (b. 1946) U.S. president

Funny Sex Marriage Quotes

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“Marriage is the price men pay for sex; sex is the price women pay for marriage.”Anonymous

Writing Principles Quotes - Cyril Connolly

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“Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.”Cyril Connolly (1903 – 74) British critic and novelist

God - Heart Quotes - Kahlil Gibran

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“When you love you should not say, 'God is in my heart,' but rather, 'I am in the heart of God.' And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.”Kahlil Gibran (1883 – 1931) U.S. artist, poet, and writer

Love Quotes - William Shakespeare

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“O powerful love, that in some respects makes a beast a man, in some other, a man a beast.”William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616) English poet and playwright

Strength Quotes - Abraham Lincoln

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“It has been said of the world's history hitherto that might makes right. It is for us and for our time to reverse the maxim, and to say that right makes might.”Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 65) U.S. president

Future - Youth Quotes - Franklin Roosevelt

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“We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.”Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 – 1945) U.S. president

Nations - Trust Quotes - Ronald Reagan

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“Nations do not mistrust each other because they are armed; they are armed because they mistrust each other.”Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004) U.S. president

Humility Quotes - Jefferson Davis

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“Never be haughty to the humble;never be humble to the haughty.”Jefferson Davis (1808 – 89) U.S. politician

Boss is Right Quotes - Gene Mauch

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“I'm not the manager because I'm always right, but I'm always right because I'm the manager.”Gene Mauch (1925 – 2005) U.S. baseball player and manager

Funny Quotes - Mind - Waste

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“The waist is a terrible thing to mind.The mind is a terrible thing to waste.”Anonymous (graffito)

Fear - Hope Quotes - Baruch Spinoza

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“Fear cannot be without some hope nor hope without some fear.”Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 77) Dutch philosopher

Human Rights Quotes - Jimmy Carter

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“America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense ... human rights invented America.”Jimmy Carter (b. 1924) U.S. president and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize

Politics War Quotes - Mao Zedong

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“Politics is war carried out without bloodshed, while war is politics carried out with bloodshed.”Mao Zedong (1893 – 1976) President of the People's Republic of China

Boss Quotes - Confucius

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“The superior man is easy to serve, but difficult to please ... The inferior man is difficult to serve, but easy to please.”Confucius (551 – 479 B.C.) Chinese thinker and philosopher

Writing Quotes - Scott Fitzgerald

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“You don't write because you want to say something; you write because you've got something to say.”F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 – 1940) U.S. novelist and short-story writer

Quotes - Secret of Life

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“The secret of life is not to do what you like but to like what you do.”Anonymous

Gift of Love Quotes - Thomas a Kempis

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“A wise lover values not so much the gift of the lover as the love of the giver.”Thomas à Kempis (1380 - 1471) German monk and writer

Politician Statesman Quotes - Pompidou

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“A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service.”Georges Pompidou (1911 – 74) French president

Defining Moment - Quotes - Kevin Costner

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“When a defining moment comes along, you define the moment, or the moment defines you.”Kevin Costner (b. 1955) U.S. film actor, director and producer

Ability - Education Quotes - Cicero

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“Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.”Cicero (106 – 43 B.C.) Roman orator and statesman

Woman Charm Quotes - Havelock Ellis

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“Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.”Havelock Ellis (1859 – 1939) British doctor and psychologist

Humor - Friendship Quotes - Mason Cooley

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“Friendship is love minus sex and plus reason. Love is friendship plus sex and minus reason.”Mason Cooley (1927 – 2002) U.S. academic

Love Quotes - Erich Fromm

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“Infantile love follows the principle: 'I love because I am loved.'Mature love follows the principle: 'I am loved because I love.'Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.'Mature love says: 'I need you because I love you.'”Erich Fromm (1900 – 80) U.S. psychoanalyst and humanistic philosopher

Painting - Poetry Quotes - Leonardo

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“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”Leonardo da Vinci (1452 – 1519) Italian artist, mathematician, and inventor

Art - Fashion Quotes - Jean Cocteau

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“Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time.Fashion ... produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.”Jean Cocteau (1889 – 1963) French poet, novelist, and filmmaker

Success - Happiness Quotes

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“Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.”Anonymous (slogan)

Motivational Quotes - Zig Ziglar

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“You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.”Zig Ziglar (b. 1926) U.S. motivational author

Learning Quotes - Thomas Huxley

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“Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.”Thomas Huxley (1825 – 95) British biologist

Change Religion Quotes - Elbert Hubbard

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“If your religion does not change you, then you should change your religion.”Elbert Hubbard (1856 – 1915) U.S. writer and publisher

Happiness Quotes - Benjamin Disraeli

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“Action may not always bring happiness ... but there is no happiness without action.”Benjamin Disraeli (1804 – 81) British prime minister

Mistakes Quotes - John Churton Collins

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“Half of our mistakes in life arises from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel.”John Churton Collins (1848 – 1908) English literary critic

Pray - Ability Quotes - Phillips Brooks

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“Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers;pray for powers equal to your tasks.”Phillips Brooks (1835 – 93) U.S. clergyman and author

Mind - Matter Quotes - Bernard Baruch

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“Those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”Bernard Baruch (1870 – 1965) U.S. financier and statesman

Business Quotes - Thomas Watson

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“You have to put your heart in the business and the business in your heart.”Thomas J. Watson, Sr. (1874 – 1956) U.S. founder and president of IBM

Accomplishment Quotes - Mark Twain

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“It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.”Mark Twain (1835 – 1910) U.S. humorist and writer

Personality Quotes - HL Mencken

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“It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.”H. L. Mencken (1880 – 1956) U.S. journalist and critic
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