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Quotes by American Authors
"The thing about coming back to the Bay Area, it's like coming home for me."
"Information is the resolution of uncertainty."
"Another term for preventive war is aggressive war - starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us. That is not part of the American tradition."
"Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit."
"Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks."
"The intention and outcome of vulnerability is trust, intimacy and connection. The outcome of oversharing is distrust, disconnection - and usually a little judgment."
"A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her."
"You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction."
"Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation."
"A healthy degree of party unity among Democrats and Republicans has deteriorated into bitter partisan warfare."
"Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice."
"Our capacity to retaliate must be, and is, massive in order to deter all forms of aggression."
"Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit."
"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."
"Infantile love follows the principle: "I love because I am loved." Mature love follows the principle: "I am loved because I love." Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you."
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."
"You get paid in direct proportion to the difficulty of problems you solve."
"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."
"Love is the active concern for the life and the growth of that which we love. Where this active concern is lacking, there is no love."
"The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them."
"I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida."
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
"I can hire one-half of the working class to kill the other half."
"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."
"Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming."
"He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words."
"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."
"If it's important enough, you'll make the time."
"We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It's our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better."
"All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed."
"I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is."
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