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Quotes by American Authors
"Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up."
"Originality is the art of concealing your source."
"One man with courage makes a majority."
"The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose."
"Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas."
"Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out."
"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things."
"I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free."
"Avoid popularity if you would have peace."
"People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else."
"Junk is the ideal product... the ultimate merchandise. No sales talk necessary. The client will crawl through a sewer and beg to buy."
"There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original."
"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."
"I like cappuccino, actually. But even a bad cup of coffee is better than no coffee at all."
"Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people."
"When preparing to climb a mountain - pack a light heart."
"A manager is not a person who can do the work better than his men; he is a person who can get his men to do the work better than he can."
"What do I care about law? Ain't I got the power?"
"I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said."
"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower."
"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."
"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."
"Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important."
"Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive."
"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him."
"I want you to do it right as fast as you can, not fast as right as you can."
"We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics."
"Information is the resolution of uncertainty."
"I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there."
"She is the mother I never had, she is the sister everybody would want. She is the friend that everybody deserves. I don't know a better person."
"A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her."
"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."
"Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation."
"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."
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