"I would always rather be happy than dignified."
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"What do you most value in your friends? Their continued existence."
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"The Internet will help achieve "friction free capitalism" by putting buyer and seller in direct contact and providing more information to both about each other."
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"In order to taste my cup of water you must first empty your cup."
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"You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean."
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"One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well."
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"The secret of success is to make your mind work for you - not against you. This means constantly being positive, constantly setting up challenges you can meet - either today, next week, or next month etc."
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"It's that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so 'don't fuss, dear; get on with it.'"
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"If you don't get out of the box you've been raised in, you won't understand how much bigger the world is."
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"The most important thing about education is appetite."
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"The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret."
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"GNP measures neither our courage, our wisdom neither our compassion. It measures everything except what makes life worthwhile"
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"I think the artistry is in having an insight into what one sees around them. Generally putting things together in a way no one else has before and finding a way to express that to other people who don't have that insight."
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"Surround yourself with great people; delegate authority; get out of the way"
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"Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power."
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"The cost of being wrong is less than the cost of doing nothing."
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"When in doubt take a bath"
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"A life of sacrifice is the pinnacle of art, and is full of true joy."
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"If you wish to be out front, then act as if you were behind."
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"All the money in the world doesn't mean a thing if you don't have time to enjoy it."
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