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"The odds against there being a bomb on a plane are a million to one, and against two bombs a million times a million to one. Next time you fly, cut the odds and take a bomb." »Benny Hill
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"We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true." »Robert Wilensky
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"If a million people see my movie, I hope they see a million different movies." »Quentin Tarantino, Referring to the movie Pulp Fiction
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"Come to think of it, there are already a million monkeys on a million typewriters, and the Usenet is NOTHING like Shakespeare" »Blair Houghton
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"We composers are at least as significant as the stars who make 14 million or 15 million. You just don't see us." »Michael Kamen
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"I just have this feeling if I take pi, well past all this static, take pi to 10 million, 20 million digits, that I'll find something really incredible. Not just a pattern, not just an order, but a sign. A mathematical sign." »Andrew Schneider
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"Everyone needs a strong sense of self. It is our base of operations for everything that we do in life." »Julia T. Alvarez
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"People think we make 3 million and 4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only make 500,000." »Pete Incaviglia
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"Money doesn't make you happy. I now have 50 million but I was just as happy when I had 48 million." »Arnold Schwarzenegger
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"Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them." »Alfred North Whitehead
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"War like any other racket, pays high dividends to the very few. The cost of operations is always transferred to the people who do not profit." »General Smedley Butler
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"Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars." »Hobart Brown
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"With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bended arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of these things. Riches and honors acquired by unrighteousness are to me as a floating cloud." »Confucius
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""I wish I had a million dollars for every time I wished I had a million dollars."" »Tom Zegan
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"Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like" »John and Brand, Josh Falsey
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"People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned." »James Arthur Baldwin
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"There should be less talk a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough." »Mother Theresa
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"The constant man loses not his virtue in misfortune. A torch may point towards the ground, but its flame will still point upwards." »Bhartrihari
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"There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life's point of no return." »Dag Hammarskjld
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"The art of leading, in operations large or small, is the art of dealing with humanity, of working diligently on behalf of men, of being sympathetic with them, but equally, of insisting that they make a square facing toward their own problems." »S. L. A. Marshall, Men Against Fire, 1947
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"Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score Then to that twenty, add a hundred more A thousand to that hundred so kiss on, To make that thousand up a million. Treble that million, and when that is done, Let's kiss afresh, as when we first begun." »Robert Herrick
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"Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate." »Sun-tzu
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"When you have reached a point at which you cannot see more, You must remember that there may be a point beyond this at which you can see everything." »Mehmet Karagoz
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"The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become." »Adam Smith
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"A society like ours, which professes no one religion and has allowed all religions to decay, which indulges freedom to the point of license and individualism to the point of anarchy, needs all the support that responsible, cultivated homes can furnish. I hope your generation will provide a firmer shelter for civilized standards." »Alan Simpson
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"It was a false maxim of Domitian that he who would gain the people of Rome must promise all things and perform nothing. For when a man is known to be false in his word, instead of a column, which he might be by keeping it, for others to rest upon, he becomes a reed, which no man will vouchsafe to lean upon. Like a floating island, when we come next day to seek it, it is carried from the place we left it in, and, instead of earth to build upon, we find nothing but inconstant and deceiving waves." »Feltham
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"My strong point, if I have a strong point, is performance. I always do more than I say. I always produce more than I promise." »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"No leader sets out to become a leader. People set out to live their lives, expressing themselves fully. When that expression is of value, they become leaders. So the point is not to become a leader. The point is to become yourself, to use yourself completely—all your skills, gifts, and energies—in order to make your vision manifest. You must withhold nothing. You must, in sum, become the person you started out to be and enjoy the process of becoming." »Warren Bennis, From an article in a meeting industry magazine.
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"I've been thinking about that old Zen conundrum what's the sound of one hand clapping My personal opinion--nothing. You don't have two hands, you don't have any clapping. It's as simple as that. Stars, galaxies, clapping hands, what's the point The point is that we all need somebody, whether you're a supercluster or a little proton, a yin or a yang. Everybody is hooked into everybody else." »Geoffrey Neighor
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"What is grace? It is the inspiration from on high: it is love; it is liberty. Grace is the spirit of law. This discovery of the spirit of law belongs to Saint Paul; and what he calls "grace" from a heavenly point of view, we, from an earthly point, call "rigtheousness."" »Victor Hugo
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