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Humorous Quotations from Famous People - 45
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Niccolo Machiavelli
A wise man ought always to follow the paths beaten by great men, and to imitate those who have been supreme, so that if his ability does not equal theirs, at least it will savor of it. Let him act like the clever archers who, designing to hit the mark which yet appears too far distant, and knowing the limits to which the strength of their bow attains, take aim much higher than the mark, not to reach by their strength or arrow to so great a height, but to be able with the aid of so high an aim to hit the mark they wish to reach.
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Robert Collier
It sometimes seems that we have only to solve a thing greatly to get it.
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Albert Einstein
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.
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Ralph J. Smith
Engineering is the professional art of applying science to the optimum conversion of natural resources to the benefit of man.
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Charles Caleb Colton
Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel.
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Ruben Studdard
You can be confident and secure and know that you do a good job at what you do. But you don't know to be arrogant about it.
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M. C. Richards
Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance.
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Jonathan Swift
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love, one another.
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Edna St. Vincent Millay, "A Few Figs from Thistles", 1920
My candle burns at both ends It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends -
It gives a lovely light.
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Aldous Huxley
An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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Georges Clemenceau
A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed --I well know. For it is a sign that he has tried to surpass himself.
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