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You will launch many projects, but have time to finish only a few. So think, plan, develop, launch and tap good people to be responsible. Give them authority and hold them accountable. Trying to do too much yourself creates a bottleneck.
Donald Rumsfeld
Time
,
Good
,
Yourself
Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.
Blaise Pascal
Truth
,
Justice
,
Touch
If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.
Niels Bohr
Getting
,
Physics
,
Anybody
We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Best
,
Often
,
Actions
Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Men
,
Give
,
Away
When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Leaving
,
Leave
,
Imagine
The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures, they are safe only because nobody has sought after them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Women
,
After
,
Nobody
It is true that a fellow cannot ignore women - but he can think of them as he ought - as sisters, not as sparring partners.
Jim Elliot
Women
,
True
,
Ignore
In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.
Alexis de Tocqueville
May
,
Him
,
America
The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.
Wilson Mizner
Best
,
Give
,
Friends
Who bothers to cook TV dinners? I suck them frozen.
Woody Allen
Tv
,
Suck
,
Cook
I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.
Epicurus
Learn
,
Far
,
Knew
Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, 'Shake well before using.' That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.
Vance Havner
God
,
Before
,
Sometimes
All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and that is why he will always have it in his power to destroy them.
Simone de Beauvoir
Power
,
May
,
Him
We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.
Booker T. Washington
Men
,
Another
,
Color
We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
Booker T. Washington
Words
,
Down
,
English
I love that for Barack, there is no such thing as 'us' and 'them' - he doesn't care whether you're a Democrat, a Republican, or none of the above... he knows that we all love our country... and he's always ready to listen to good ideas... he's always looking for the very best in everyone he meets.
Michelle Obama
Love
,
Good
,
Best
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.
Sydney Smith
Great
,
Men
,
Courage
What I've enjoyed most, though, is meeting people who have a real interest in food and sharing ideas with them. Good food is a global thing and I find that there is always something new and amazing to learn - I love it!
Jamie Oliver
Love
,
Good
,
Food
Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in.
Alan Alda
Light
,
Off
,
Once
Men know everything - all of them - all the time - no matter how stupid or inexperienced or arrogant or ignorant they are.
Andrea Dworkin
Time
,
Men
,
Stupid
I always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There's always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.
LeBron James
Live
,
End
,
Decisions
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.
Malcolm Forbes
Doubt
,
Along
,
Pass
The last great delusion is soon to open before us. Antichrist is to perform his marvelous works in our sight So closely will the counterfeit resemble the true that it will be impossible to distinguish between them except by the Holy Scriptures.
Ellen G. White
Great
,
True
,
Before
Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Men
,
Justice
,
Giving
If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
Charles de Montesquieu
Happy
,
Difficult
,
Wanted
Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.
Alan Watts
Parents
,
Born
,
Principles
Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Means
,
Faults
,
Conceal
Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Old
,
Acting
,
Head
Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Great
,
Others
,
Suspect
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