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"Man, being the servant and interpreter of nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or in thought of the course of nature: beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything."	Sir Francis Bacon
"If any human being earnestly desire to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old; to win victories over Nature as a worker rather than over hostile critics as a disputant; to attain , in fact, clear and demonstrative knowlegde instead of attractive and probable theory; we invite him as a true son of Science to join our ranks."	Sir Francis Bacon
"I have always felt that the moment when first you wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the 24 hours. No matter how weary or dreary you may feel, you possess the certainty that ... absolutely anything may happen. And the fact that it practically always doesn't , matters not one jot. The possibility is always there."	Monica Baldwin
"Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste."	Lucille Ball
"The best audience is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk."	Alben William Barkley
"The best audience is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk."	Alvin Barkley
"In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are apparently based on the ludicrous assumption that _men_ know how to fix things, when in fact all they know how to do is _look_ at things in a certain squinty-eyed manner, which they learned in Wood Shop; eventually, when enough things in the home are broken, they take a job requiring them to transfer to another home."	Dave Barry
"Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap."	Jacques Martin Barzun
"Half of the world's misery comes from ignorance. The other half comes from intelligence."	Baslo
"A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep."	Saul Bellow
"Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life."	(Enoch) Arnold Bennett
"You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of unmanufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive."	Thomas Arnold Bennett
"The factory of the future will have two employees: a man and a dog. The man's job will be to feed the dog. The dog's job will be to prevent the man from touching any of the automated equipment."	Warren G. Bennis
"The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born. Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led."	Warren G. Bennis
"Habits...the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction...You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way - by finding that it is a means of satisfaction."	Juliene Berk
"Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible."	Mary McLeod Bethune
"How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant."	Lord Billingsley
"Continuous effort--not strength or intelligence--is the key to unlocking our potential."	Black Elk
"At a certain age some people's minds close up; they live on their intellectual fat."	Irish Blessing
"The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing. The long term study of people who eventually became wealthy clearly reveals that their 'luck' arose from accidental dedication they had to an arena they enjoyed."	Srully D. Blotnick
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Anne Frank	Antonio Gramsci	Arnold H. Glasgow
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Charles Galloway	Charles McCabe	Charles Robert Darwin
Chinua Achebe	Clarence Day	Clifton Paul Fadiman
Clive Staples Lewis	Dag Hjalmar Agné Carl Hammarskjold	Daniel Day Lewis
Dave Barry	David Fasold	David P(ierpont) Gardner
Dean Koontz	Dee W. Hock	Denis Diderot
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Dr. Samuel Johnson	Dwight David Eisenhower	D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence
Edgar Watson Howe	Edward Albee	Edward de Bono
Erica Mann Jong	Erich Fromm	Eric Mascall
Ernest Miller Hemingway	Eugene V. Debs	Eugenio Montale
Euripides	E. M. Cioran	Felix Cohen
Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky	Flower A. Newhouse	Fran Lebowitz
Frank Kingdon	Friedrich August von Hayek	Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
F(rancis) Scott	Galileo Galilei	George Eliot
Gerald	Gerald W. Grummet	Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Giuseppe Mazzini	G. H. Hardy	Hal Borland
Harry Emerson Fosdick	Heinrich Heine	Henrik Ibsen
Henry Ford	Henry Brooks Adams	Henry Graham Greene
Henry Louis Mencken	Herbert Butterfield	Herbert Clark Hoover
Hermes	Hoshang N. Akhtar	Irish Blessing
Isadora Duncan	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]	Jacques Maritain
Jacques Martin Barzun	James Branch Cabell	James Dent
James Russel Lowell	James Truslow Adams	Joe Moore
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	Johann Kepler	John Dewey
John Keats	John Andrew Holmes, Jr.	John Fellows Akers
John Fitzgerald Kennedy	John Junor	John L. Casteel
John Quincy Adams	Joseph Mazzini	Josiah Gilbert Holland
Juliene Berk	Julius Henry Marx	Kahlil Gibran
Katherine Graham	Kevin R. Hutson	Kingman Brewster, Jr.
Lao-Tzu	Lavina Goodell	Lazarus Long
Leonardo da Vinci	Lord Billingsley	Lord Melbourne
Lucille Ball	Lyndon Baines Johnson	Marsha Evans
Martin H. Fischer	Mary McLeod Bethune	Max Born
Maya Angelou	Michael Korda	Miles Kindera
Millicent Carey McIntosh	Missy Good	Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Monica Baldwin	Mort Crim	Moshe Arens
Newt Gingrich	Niall MacDermot	Nikki Giovanni
Norman Cousins	Norman Mailer	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Nader	Raymond Claud Ferdinan Aron	Rita Mae Brown
Robert	Robertson Davies	Robert Anson Heinlein
Robert Francis Kennedy	Robert Green Ingersoll	Robert Hewison
Robert Keith Leavitt	Roger	Roger John
Ruth Gordon	Saint Augustine	Saul Bellow
Scott Adams	Shakti Gawain	Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Sigmund Freud	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle	Sir Francis Bacon
Sir William Alton Jones	Sir William Henry Bragg	Sri da Avabhas
Srully D. Blotnick	Stan Getz	Stephen Crane
Stephen William Hawking	Sybil Marshall	Sydney J. Harris
S(amuel) I(chiye) Hayakawa	Thomas Carlyle	Thomas Alva Edison
Thomas Arnold Bennett	Thomas Henry Huxley	Truman Capote
T. S. Eliot	Uta Hagan	Victor Hugo
Václav Havel	Warren G. Bennis	Willa Sibert Cather
William James	William Bolitho	William Ellery Channing
William Faulkner	William Ralph Inge	William Seward Burroughs
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	Woody Allen	(Alfred) "Alistair" Cooke
(Carl) Frederick Buechner	(Enoch) Arnold Bennett	(George) Norman Douglas
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