To take something from a person and keep it for oneself: that is robbery. To take something from one person and then turn it over to another in exchange for as much money as you can get: that is business. Robbery is so much more stupid, since it is satisfied with a single, frequently dangerous profit; whereas in business it can be doubled without danger.
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Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.
~quotes on Purpose by Washington Irving Your Business clothes are naturally attracted to staining liquids. This attraction is strongest just before an important meeting.
~sayings on Jobs by Scott Adams The greatest discoveries of science have always been those that forced us to rethink our beliefs about the universe and our place in it.
~quotations on Science by Robert L. Park, in The New York Times, 7 December 1999 Through years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.
~famous quote on change by Jack Nicklaus, on why he tees his ball high. Smoke your pipe and be silent; there's only wind and smoke in the world.
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If you make every game a life-and-death thing, you're going to have problems. You'll be dead a lot.
~quote about Sports by Dean Smith It just wouldn't be a picnic without the ants
~quotes on Adversity by Author Unknown Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.
~sayings on Winter by Pietro Aretino People who don't cherish their elderly have forgotten whence they came and whither they go.
~quotations on Generations by Ramsey Clark It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too.
~famous quote on change by H.W. Shaw Hold a baseball in your hand ... Feel the ball, turn it over in your hand; hold it across the seam or the other way, with the seam just to the side of your middle finger. Speculation stirs. You want to get outdoors and throw this spare and sensual object to somebody or, at the very least, watch somebody else throw it. The game has begun
~saying about change by Roger Angell in Five Seasons The act of bellringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
~quote about Religion by Ezra Pound Our enemies’ opinion of us is more accurate then our own.
~quotes on Attitude by I have a problem with too much money. I can't reinvest it fast enough, and because I reinvest it, more money comes in. Yes, the rich do get richer.
~sayings on Wealth by Robert Kiyosaki We must love one another or die
~quotations on Death by W.H. Auden I make presents to the mother but think of the daughter.
~famous quote on change by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.
~saying about change by Henry Ward Beecher Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
~quote about Marriage by Stephen Leacock, Literary Lapses, 1910 Transcend political correctness and strive for human righteousness.
~quotes on Integrity by Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book I want to get a tattoo of myself on my entire body, only two inches taller.
~sayings on Tattoos by Steven Wright Cloquet hated reality but realized it was still the only place to get a good steak.
~quotations on Reality by Woody Allen Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly
~famous quote on change by Rose Franken Failure and success seem to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star or against it, and in the whole universe the only really interesting movement is this wriggle.
~saying about change by E.M. Forester And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
~quote about Responsibility by Abraham Lincoln Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.
~quotes on Poetry by T.S. Eliot, Tradition and Individual Talent, 1919 American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's-license age than at voting age
~sayings on Election Day by Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, 1964 Nothing flatters me more than to have it assumed that I could write prose-unless it be to have it assumed that I once pitched a baseball with distinction
~quotations on Baseball by Robert Frost You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.
~famous quote on change by Author Unknown A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That's where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It's having backbone.
~saying about change by Robert Kiyosaki Against abortion? Don't have one.
~quote about Abortion by Author Unknown Without love, what are we worth? Eighty-nine cents! Eighty-nine cents worth of chemicals walking around lonely
~quotes on I Love You by M*A*S*H, Hawkeye Most bicyclists in New York City obey instinct far more than they obey the traffic laws, which is to say that they run red lights, go the wrong way on one-way streets, violate cross-walks, and terrify innocents, because it just seems easier that way. Cycling in the city, and particularly in midtown, is anarchy without malice.
~sayings on Bicycling by Author unknown, from New Yorker, Talk of the Town Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these
~quotations on Birth by Ovid It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity.
~famous quote on change by Robert Louis Stevenson, Crabbed Age and Youth, Virginibus Puerisque, 1881 A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person.
~saying about change by Dave Barry, Things That It Took Me 50 Years to Learn Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.
~quote about Carpe Diem by William Hazlitt, On the Love of Life, 1815 Patriotism knows neither latitude nor longitude. It is not climatic.
~quotes on Patriotism by E.A. Storrs
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