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Quotes by American Authors

"Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up."

"I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free."

"Junk is the ideal product... the ultimate merchandise. No sales talk necessary. The client will crawl through a sewer and beg to buy."

"I like cappuccino, actually. But even a bad cup of coffee is better than no coffee at all."

"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things."

"Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important."

"Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas."

"We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics."

"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."

"I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said."

"When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it."

"Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation."

"Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out."

"Avoid popularity if you would have peace."

"People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else."

"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower."

"Information is the resolution of uncertainty."

"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."

"A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her."

"Our capacity to retaliate must be, and is, massive in order to deter all forms of aggression."

"Communism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declared war against Almighty God."

"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."

"The science of today is the technology of tomorrow."

"Every sunrise is an invitation for us to arise and brighten someone's day."

"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him."

"What do I care about law? Ain't I got the power?"

"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."

"We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the safeguard of our property and our liberty and our property under the Constitution."

"I would like to see the day when somebody would be appointed surgeon somewhere who had no hands, for the operative part is the least part of the work."


"I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is."

"Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive."

"Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated."

"Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose."
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