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"If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who, doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a machine, does not choose to know how the machine got there or what makes his job possible, and proclaims that the management of the undertaking is parasitical and unneccessary." »Ayn Rand
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"It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody." »Publilius Syrus
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"The undertaking of a new action brings new strength." »Evenius
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"Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture." »William James
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"The undertaking of a careless man succeeds not, though he use the right expedients: a clever hunter, though well placed in ambush, kills not his quarry if he falls asleep." »Bharavi
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"Well, the telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful." »Kurt Vonnegut, Interview, Mcsweeneys.net
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"Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking." »Jessamyn West
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"Contrary to popular belief, the most dangerous animal is not the lion or tiger or even the elephant. The most dangerous animal is a shark riding on an elephant, just trampling and eating everything they see." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"I will persist until I succeed. Always will I take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another. In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult.... I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking." »Og Mandino
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"I have often been downcast, but never in despair I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments." »Anne Frank
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"Nurture an appetite for being puzzled, for being confused, indeed for being openly stupid, and that - despite what you may think - is very difficult...We all know the cliche' that a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing. It is also true that a lot of knowledge can be a dangerous thing as well...use your ignorance as well as your knowledge for creative means." »Lee C. Bollinger
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"Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility." »Pablo Picasso
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"Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening." »Gertrude Stein
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"All generalizations are dangerous, even this one." »Alexandre Dumas
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"It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid." »George Bernard Shaw
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"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong." »Voltaire
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"An error is the more dangerous the more truth it contains." »Henri Frdric Amiel
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"If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger." »Thomas Huxley
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"Blind belief is dangerous." »Kenyan Proverb
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"Advertising is like learning -- a little is a dangerous thing." »P Barnum
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"It's a dangerous business going out your front door." »J. R. R. Tolkien
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"In the republic of mediocrity genius is dangerous." »Robert G. Ingersoll
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"The will to believe is perhaps the most powerful, but certainly the most dangerous human attribute." »John P. Grier
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"A little learning is a dangerous thing but a lot of ignorance is just as bad." »Bob Edwards
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"Everything is a dangerous drug except reality, which is unendurable." »Cyril Connolly
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"A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous." »Alfred Alder
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"A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad." »Bob Edwards
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"Ignorance is a dangerous and dreadful disease." »Jacqueline Job
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"A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us." »Margaret Hilda Thatcher
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"It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." »Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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