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Funny Quotations from Famous People - 91
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Laurence J. Peter
Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
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Maria Montessori
The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.
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Homer
May the gods grant you all things which your heart desires, and may they give you a husband and a home and gracious concord, for there is nothing greater and better than this -when a husband and wife keep a household in oneness of mind, a great woe to their enemies and joy to their friends, and win high renown.
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Juvenal
Be gentle with the young.
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George Pratt Shultz
I learned in business that you had to be very careful when you told somebody that's working for you to do something, because the chances were very high he'd do it. In government, you don't have to worry about that.
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John Lilly
In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.
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Francis Bacon
Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.
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Poul Anderson
I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.
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Dennis Potter
Politics is still crucially important. Our choices are vital, and we've got to make them, and not just say, 'Oh, they're all the same.' They are all the same in certain ways, alas -- a political animal is such an animal. But lurking somewhere behind their rhetoric and their spittle are important choices that we should make.
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Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, August 2, 2003
I’m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I’m discovering that things were never in my hands.
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Robert Louis Stephenson
Quiet minds can't be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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H. L. Mencken
Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
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