Quotations By Famous People

Quotations By Famous People

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If your subordinates are not making an occasional mistake or two, it is a sure sign they are playing it too safe.
-- Anon....
A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake, as by never repeating it.
-- John Christian Bovee...
The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave.
Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery. -- Nagarjuna (c. 100-200 A.D.)...
She went her unremembering way, She went and left in me The pang of all the partings gone, And partings yet to be.
-- Francis Thompson (1859-1907)...
All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.
-- Mae West (1893?-1980)...
Whenever things sound easy, it turns out there's one part you didn't hear.
-- Donald E. Westlake, _Drowned_Hopes_...
Be your character what it will, it will be known; and nobody will take it upon your word.
-- Chesterfield (1694-1773)...
I would rather dance as a ballerina, though faultily, than as a flawless clown.
-- Margaret Atwood in Lady Oracle...
The person who knows how will always have a job, but the person who knows why will be the boss.
-- Carl Wood...
Tell a man that there are 6 billion stars in the sky and he will believe you.
Tell him that the paint on a park bench is wet and he has to touch it to find out. -- Anon....

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