65.Quotes On Problems:Conversation:Luck:Trust:Humor:Praise:Taste-Part 5

"Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back.." -Piet Hein-

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"Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is.".-Francis Bacon-

"Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.".-Lionel Trilling-

"There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs.".-Aldous Huxley-

"It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.".-Henry Brooks Adams-

"The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.".-Laurence J. Peter-

"We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-

"I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut h".-Antonin Artaud-

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"The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.".-George Santayana-

"People who make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children, but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism.".-Oliver Wendell Holmes-

"Good conversation unrolls itself like the spring or like the dawn.".-William B. Yeats-

"The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.".-Channing Pollock-

"Some people are so fond of bad luck they run half way to meet it.".-Douglas William Jerrold-

"What is luck? It is not only chance, it is also creating the opportunity, recognizing it when it is there, and taking it when it comes.".-Natasha Josefowitz-

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"Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.".-Aesop-

"The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong;that the bumblebee can fly;that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert;that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent.".-David Mamet-

"It is not work that kills men;it is worry. Work is healthy;you can hardly put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is the rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution which destroys the machinery but the friction. Fear secretes acids;but love and trus".-Henry Ward Beecher-

"Trust not the horse, O Trojans. Be it what it may, I fear the Grecians even when they offer gifts.".-Virgil-

"Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.".-Alexander Pope-

"A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.".-Francois de la Rochefoucauld-

"Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land.".-Herman Melville-

"Reprove your friends in secret, praise them openly.".-Publilius Syrus-

"There are times when you have to choose between being a human and having good taste.".-Bertolt Brecht-

"Taste may change, but inclination never.".-Francois de la Rochefoucauld-

"A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.".-Oliver Goldsmith-

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"We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.".-William B. Yeats-

"True revolutionaries are like God - they create the world in their own image. Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.".-Barbara Grizzuti Harrison-

"Each generation of the church in each setting has the responsibility of communicating the gospel in understandable terms, considering the language and thought-forms of that setting.".-Francis Schaeffer-

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"Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility. In the final analysis, the only quality that all successful people have is the ability to take on responsibility.".-Michael Korda-

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