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"People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too."
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"By the time we've made it, we've had it."
Time
"Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are."
People
"The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy."
Life
"Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time."
Time
"Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all."
Leadership
"It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history."
History
"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one."
Education
"What's an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows, he doesn't know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesn't admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesn't really know how much."
Man
"To measure the man, measure his heart."
Heart
"If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues initials on them and pass them along. When in doubt, route."
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"The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace."
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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
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Personal Development
"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
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Personal Development
"Other people's beliefs may be myths, but not mine."
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Personal Development
"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
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Personal Development
"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."
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Personal Development
"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."
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Personal Development
"We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like."
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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
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Personal Development
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