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"Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance." »Robert Quillen
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"If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate." »Thomas John Watson, Sr.
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"What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better." »Doris Lessing
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"Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty." »Samuel Johnson
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"Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty." »Samuel Johnson, Rasselas
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"The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking." »A. A. Milne
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"If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas." »George Bernard Shaw
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"If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas." »George Bernard Shaw
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"Did you exchange a walk-on part in a war, for a leading role in a cage?" »Pink Floyd, song "Wish You Were Here"
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"The public interest is best served by the free exchange of ideas." »Judge John Kane
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"Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market." »Erich Fromm
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"Between eigtheen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing." »Andre Malraux
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"We look at adoption as a very sacred exchange. It was not done lightly on either side. I would dedicate my life to this child." »Jamie Lee Curtis
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"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of someone else." »Judy Garland
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"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else." »Judy Garland
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"Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else." »Judy Garland
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"New York: A third-rate Babylon." »H. L. Mencken
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"At any rate, I am convinced that He [God] does not play dice." »Albert Einstein, In a letter to Max Born, 1926
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"If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very low crime rate." »Marion Barry, Mayor of Washington, D.C.
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"At any rate, I am convinced that He God does not play dice." »Albert Einstein
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"The way to succeed is to double your error rate." »Thomas John Watson, Sr.
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"If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdom of Europe, were laid at my feet in exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all." »Francois Fenelon
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"The Future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is." »Clive Staples Lewis
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"The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men" »Henry B. Adams
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"Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards -- the things we live by and teach our children -- are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings." »Walt Disney
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"Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate, and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness." »Chamfort
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"All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible." »William Faulkner
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"When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange -- my youth." »Sara Teasdale
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"Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor." »Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work." »H. L. Hunt
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