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"Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.." -Ludwig Wittgenstein-
"The secret to humor is surprise.".-Aristotle-
"Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.".-Langston Hughes-
"Wit and Humor - if any difference, it is in duration - lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently;but one is vivid, and can do damage - the other fools along and enjoys elaboration.".-Mark Twain
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"Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.".-Victor Borge-
"Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, But quickly to see how to make them good.".-Elbert Hubbard-
"The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.".-Jean Baudrillard-
"Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with it apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.".-Norman Podhoretz-
"It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.".-Agnes Repplier-
"Conceit causes more conversation than wit.".-Francois de la Rochefoucauld-
"Don't knock the weather;nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.".-Kin Hubbard-
"Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for competitors.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.".-Barbara Sher-
"I think the harder you work, the more luck you have.".-David Thomas-
"Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die!".-Luigi Pirandello-
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"Some folk want their luck buttered.".-Thomas Hardy-
"The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.".-Bertrand Russell-
"For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.".-Henry Louis Mencken-
"Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.".-Oliver Wendell Holmes-
"The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working.".-Albert Einstein-
"We increase whatever we praise. The whole creation responds to praise, and is glad.".-Charles Fillmore-
"Call the bald man, ''Boy;' make the sage thy toy;greet the youth with solemn face;praise the fat man for his grace.".-Helen Rowland-
"The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.".-Oprah Winfrey-
"Egotist. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than me.".-Ambrose Bierce-
"Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of taste.".-Cyril Connolly-
"Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.;H.".-Henry Louis Mencken-
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"Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more, is even a rarer gift than the creative faculty itself.".-Vicomte de Chateaubriand-
"Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.".-Anthony Robbins-
"One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is to be prepared.".-Dan Quayle-
"Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.".-Les Brown-
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"There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.." -Lyndon B. Johnson-
"An emotional man may possess no humor, but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or forgotten.".-Constance Rourke-
"All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I'd be standing on the breadline right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.".-Lenny Bruce-
"Imagination is a quality given a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.".-Oscar Wilde
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"Humor is the first gift to perish in a foreign language.".-Virginia Woolf-
"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.".-F. Scott Fitzgerald-
"You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language that a six-year-old child can understand;and yet have the meanings and the overtones of language, and the implications, that appeal to the highest intelligence.".-Katherine Anne Porter-
"Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.".-Phyllis Mcginley-
"Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.".-Amos Bronson Alcott-
"Listening well and answering well is one of the greatest perfections that can be obtained in conversation.".-Francois de la Rochefoucauld-
"If you ever have to support a flagging conversation, introduce the topic of eating.".-Leigh Hunt-
"In conversation the game is, to say something new with old words. And you shall observe a man of the people picking his way along, step by step, using every time an old boulder, yet never setting his foot on an old place.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"Diligence is the mother of good luck.".-Benjamin Franklin-
"Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.".-Don Shula-
"Luck can often mean simple taking advantage of a situation at the right moment, It is possible to ''make'' your luck by being always prepared.".-Michael Korda-
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"Good shot, bad luck and hell are the five basic words to be used in a game of tennis, though these, of course, can be slightly amplified.".-Virginia Graham-
"America is neither free nor brave, but a land of tight, iron-clanking little wills, everybody trying to put it over everybody else, and a land of men absolutely devoid of the real courage of trust, trust in life's sacred spontaneity. They can't trust life".-David Herbert Lawrence-
"Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.".-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow-
"London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy.".-Oscar Wilde-
"Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.".-Alexander Pope-
"Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial;in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.".-Charles Simmons-
"Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that as common sense? The commonest sense is the sense of men asleep, which they express by snoring.".-Henry David Thoreau-
"The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.".-Oscar Wilde-
"Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.".-Ambrose Bierce-
"Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.".-Dame Edith Sitwell-
"Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.".-Logan Pearsall Smith-
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"It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions.".-Voltaire-
"Whatever happens, take responsibility.".-Anthony Robbins-
"We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesting from God to the newspaperman.".-Daniel J. Boorstin-
"If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.".-Les Brown-
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"Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.." -Norman Vincent Peale-
"Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.".-David Seabury-
"Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.".-Leo Rosten-
"Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman.".-Oscar Wilde
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"In order to live a fully human life we require not only control of our bodies (though control is a prerequisite);we must touch the unity and resonance of our physicality, our bond with the natural order, the corporeal grounds of our intelligence.".-Adrienne Rich-
"Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.".-Flower A. Newhouse-
"If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.".-Lao-Tzu-
"Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.".-Quentin Crisp-
"What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.".-Anatole France-
"The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.".-Francois de la Rochefoucauld-
"A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.".-Mark Twain-
"Things said for conversation are chalk eggs. Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"Luck is the residue of design.".-Branch Rickey-
"Why is it no one ever sent me yet one perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it's always just my luck to get one perfect rose.".-Dorothy Parker-
"A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.".-Nanette Newman-
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"Having thus chosen our course, without guile and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear and with manly hearts.".-Abraham Lincoln-
"Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.".-David Herbert Lawrence-
"Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act - act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead.".-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow-
"One should never trust a woman who tells her real age. If she tells that, she'll tell anything.".-Oscar Wilde-
"Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.".-Alexander Pope-
"God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.".-Christopher Morley-
"The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a but.".-Henry Ward Beecher-
"Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.".-Pierre Corneille-
"Bad taste makes the day go by faster.".-Andy Warhol-
"Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire - you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.".-Denis Waitley-
"Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.".-Lucille Ball-
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"It is new fancy rathert than taste which produces so many new fashions.".-Voltaire-
"Everyone has a responsibility to not only tolerate another person's point of view, but also to accept it eagerly as a challenge to your own understanding. And express those challenges in terms of serving other people.".-Arlo Guthrie-
"Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.".-Dietrich Bonhoeffer-
"You take on the responsibility for making your dream a reality.".-Les Brown-
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"Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back.." -Piet Hein-
"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-
"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-
"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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"People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.." -Vince Lombardi-
"Fortune and humor govern the world.".-Francois de la Rochefoucauld-
"I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.".-Lord Nelson-
"There is 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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"Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.".-Alfred North Whitehead-
"No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.".-Henry Brooks Adams-
"Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence;he is just using his memory.".-Leonardo Da Vinci-
"There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.".-Virginia Woolf-
"No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi.".-Ben Elton-
"It requires nothing less than a chivalric feeling to sustain a conversation with a lady.".-Henry David Thoreau-
"Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.".-Oscar Wilde-
"This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares;she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors;or we go empty away.".-Amelia E. Barr-
"It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.".-Charles Baudelaire-
"Luck is tenacity of purpose.".-Elbert Hubbard-
"Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.".-Oprah Winfrey-
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"Morality is always the product of terror;its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust themselves, to walk in liberty.".-Aldous Huxley-
"Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.".-Doris Lessing-
"Empires built on force will always be destroyed. Those built on trust in Christ will remain.".-Joseph R. Sizoo-
"Trust not to much to appearances.".-Virgil-
"The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.".-Alighieri Dante-
"Few persons have sufficient wisdom to prefer censure, which is useful, to praise which deceives them.".-Francois de la Rochefoucauld-
"A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.".-Jean Baudrillard-
"Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own.".-Bill Bradley-
"There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.".-Francois de la Rochefoucauld-
"Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!".-Oliver Goldsmith-
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"To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life.".-Abbie M. Dale-
"Champions take responsibility. When the ball is coming over the net, you can be sure I want the ball.".-Billie Jean King-
"No man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility.".-Gerald W. Johnson-
"Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.".-Nadine Gordimer-
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"The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.." -Winston Churchill-
"Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?".-Frank Moore Colby-
"It is the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor.".-Lord Shaftesbury-
"Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.".-Ambrose Bierce-
"Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.".-Henry Louis Mencken-
"I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic.".-Lisa Alther-
"Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.".-Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart-
"The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much;always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our friends;never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as much as possibly we can;to hearken to what ".-Benjamin Franklin-
"Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.".-Henry Louis Mencken-
"If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.".-Oscar Wilde-
"The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.".-Anthony Robbins-
"Luck generally comes to those who look for it, and my notion is that it taps, once in a lifetime, at everybody's door, but if industry does not open it luck goes away.".-Charles Haddon Spurgeon-
"Honest people will respect us for our merit: the public, for our luck.".-Francois de la Rochefoucauld-
"When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck;men risk theirs.".-Oscar Wilde-
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"The business of a seer is to see;and if he involves himself in the kind of God-eclipsing activities which make seeing impossible, he betrays the trust which his fellows have tacitly placed in him.".-Aldous Huxley-
"Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.".-Francis Bacon-
"I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.".-Kim Basinger-
"Trust not too much to an enchanting face.".-Virgil-
"This miserable state is borne by the wretched souls of those who lived without disgrace and without praise.".-Alighieri Dante-
"The shame that arises from praise which we do not deserve often makes us do things we should otherwise never have attempted.".-Francois de la Rochefoucauld-
"The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.".-Nathaniel Howe-
"Such is the love of praise, so great the anxiety for victory.".-Virgil-
"What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.".-Charles Baudelaire-
"All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting.".-Friedrich Nietzsche-
"Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art.".-Oscar Wilde-
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"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.".-Abraham Lincoln-
"I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.".-Bob Dylan-
"Absolute liberty is absence of restraint;responsibility is restraint;therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.".-Henry Brooks Adams-
"Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.".-Napoleon Hill-
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