A living dog is better than a dead lion.
~ Henry David Thoreau
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Author Archives: Seamas Anstruther
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People don’t need love. What they need is success in one form or another. It can be love but it needn’t be.
~ Charles Bukowski
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Success in the marketplace increasingly depends on learning, yet most people don’t know how to learn.
~ Chris Argyris
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If I have said nothing new tonight, it may well be because, in a family of nations as in families of individuals we should expect nothing more sensational than growth.
~ Dean Acheson
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The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
~ William Butler Yeats
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Mathematics is too arduous and uninviting a field to appeal to those to whom it does not give great rewards.
~ Norbert Wiener
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Create all the happiness you are able to create: remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow you to add something to the pleasure of others, or to diminish something of their pains.
~ Jeremy Bentham
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While the forces of repression need to win every time, the progressive elements need only triumph once.
~ Iain Banks
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Myths are made for the imagination to breathe life into them.
~ Albert Camus
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
~ William S. Burroughs
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