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- A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of...
- A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions...
- A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other invention in human history, with the possible exception...
- A life without love, without the presence of the beloved, is nothing but a mere magic-latern show. We draw...
- A little girl can be sweeter (and badder) oftener than anyone else in the world. She can jitter around,...
- A lot of advertisers lined up to throw money at this stuff because they were caught up in the...
- A man's errors are what make him amiable. ...
- A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he is to be ultimately...
- A new question has arisen in modern man's mind, the question, namely, whether life is worth living...No sensible answer...
- A politician is a person who can make waves and then make you think he's the only one who...
- A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth...
- A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make...
- A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can. ...
- A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. ...
- A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God. ...
- Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form...
- Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to...
- Age does not make us childish, as some say; it only finds us true children still. ...
- Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the...
- All life is an experiment. The more experiments yoiu make the better. ...
- All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake...
- All the fundamental concepts which make up the kind of people we are today had their modern conception in...
- All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones. ...
- All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must...
- All truly wise thoughts have been thought thousands of times; But to make them truly ours we must think...
- All truly wise thoughts have been thoughts already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must...
- Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way....
- Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it. ...
- Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? ...
- America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy. ...
- America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such...
- [America is] still the best country for the common man - white or black ... if he can't make...
- Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans...
- Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love,...
- An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling. ...
- An intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -...
- Any fool can make a rule and every fool will mind it. ...
- Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -...
- Anyone who doesn't make mistakes isn't trying hard enough. ...
- As an atheist you have to rationalize things... Then you have to try and make some sort of sense...
- As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem...
- As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which he cannot apply will make...
- As long as we think we can save ourselves by our own will power, we will only make the...
- As you make your way through this hectic world of ours, set aside a few minutes each day. At...
- At this festive season of the year, Mr Scrooge, said the gentleman, taking up a pen, it is more...
- Be ever questioning. Ignorance is not bliss. It is oblivion. You don't go to heaven if you die dumb....
- Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself...
- Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say,...
- Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes...
- Besides, we don't make mistakes here, we just have happy accidents. ...
- Beyond the formative effects of reading on the individuals composing society, the fact that they have read the same...
- Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future. ...
- Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn't help a human...
- By and large, I seem to have made more mistakes than any others of whom I know, but have...
- Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living! ...
- Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch -...
- Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. ...
- Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them? ...
- Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them? ...
- Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me. ...
- Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and...
- Class has a sense of humor. It knows that a good laugh is the best lubricant for oiling the...
- Colleges don't make fools. They only develop them. ...
- Congealed thinking is the forerunner of failure... make sure you are always receptive to new ideas. ...
- Consciously or unconsciously we all strive to make the kind of a world we like. ...
- Consciously or unconsciously we all strive to make the kind of a world we like. ...
- Courageous risks are life-giving, they help you grow, make you brave, and better than you think you are. ...
- Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. ...
- Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in...
- Cultivate your curiosity. Keep it sharp and always working. Consider curiosity your life preserver, your willingness to try something...
- Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can...
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes...
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes...
- Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you...
- Do not be too timid and squeamish about your reactions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you...
- Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress. ...
- Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make...
- Do you think the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the...
- Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make...
- Don't make use of another's mouth unless it has been leant to you. ...
- Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of them become...
- Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some...
- Every man ... should periodically be compelled to listen to opinions which are infuriating to him. To hear nothing...
- Every man has a right to life. That means that he also has a right to make a comfortable...
- Every man should make up his own mind that if he expects to succeed, he must give an honest...
- Every morning is a fresh beginning. Every day is the world made new. Today is a new day. Today...
- Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You...
- Everyone's got it in him, if he'll only make up his mind and stick at it. None of us...
- Everything can be learned, including, to a very large extent, to be what you are not. You can learn...
- Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise. ...
- Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. ...
- Failing doesn't make you a failure. Giving up, accepting your failure, refusing to try again does! ...
- Faith! he must make his stories shorter Or change his comrades once a quarter. ...
- Falling Doesn't Make You a Failure, Staying Down Does. ...
- Few really believe. The most only believe that they believe or even make believe. ...
- Fill your mouth with marbles and make a speech. Every day reduce the number of marbles in your mouth...
- Fools make researches and wise men exploit them. ...
- For this is Wisdom; to love, to live To take what fate, or the Gods may give. To ask...
- Formal education will earn you a living, self-education make you a fortune. ...
- Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. ...
- Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune. ...
- Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions... ...
- Friends are relatives you make for yourself. ...
- Friends are relatives you make for yourself. ...
- From a fallen tree, all make kindling. ...
- From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life. ...
- Garner up pleasant thoughts in your mind, for pleasant thoughts make pleasant lives. ...
- God don't make no mistakes. That's how He got to be God. ...
- Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to the garage makes you a car....
- Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels...
- Good plans shape good decisions. That's why good planning helps to make elusive dreams come true. ...
- Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law. ...
- Grant, Lord, that we might overcome our enemies by transforming them into friends. Make them and make us conscious...
- Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to...
- Great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities but to make them. ...
- Half the work that is done in the world is to make things appear what they are not. ...
- Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we...
- He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates...
- He who does not attempt to make peace When small discords arise, Is like the bee's hive which leaks...
- He's a Blockhead who wants a proof of what he Can't Percieve And he's a Fool who tries to...
- High office teaches decision making, not substance. [It] consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials...
- Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to...
- Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway. ...
- How much money did you make last year? Mail it in. [suggestion for a simplified tax form] ...
- How smooth must be the language of the whites, when they can make right look like wrong, and wrong...
- Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self; it is no humility for a man to think...
- Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender. ...
- I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. ...
- I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty...
- I am now going to make you a gift that will stay with you the rest of your life....
- I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have...
- I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. ...
- I can't keep from fooling around with our irrefutable certainties. It is, for example, a pleasure knowingly to mix...
- I check myself every day just to make sure this is the same person. ...
- I could have spoken from Rhode Island where I have been staying ... But I felt that, in speaking...
- I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a...
- I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by...
- I don't make jokes - I just watch the government and report the facts. ...
- I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. ...
- I feel that you are justified in looking into the future with true assurance, because you have a mode...
- I have always thought it would be a blessing if each person could be blind and deaf for a...
- I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous....
- I have only one thing to say to the tax increasers. Go ahead - make my day. ...
- I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world....
- I hear it said that West Berlin is militarily untenable - and so was Bastogne, and so, in fact,...
- I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance. ...
- I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by. ...
- I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. ...
- I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning. ...
- I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning. ...
- I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make...
- I never been in no situation where havin' money make it any worse. ...
- I never dared be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative when old. ...
- I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones. ...
- I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect. ...
- I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of...
- I try to do the right thing at the right time.They may just be little things, but usually they...
- I try to make everyone's day just a little more surreal. ...
- I want to emphasize in the great concentration which we now place upon scientists and engineers how much we...
- I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women. (On appointing 10 women to...
- I wasn't put on this Earth to make you feel like a man. ...
- I would rather make my name than inherit it. ...
- If I had as much make-up on as he did, I'd have looked younger, too. ...
- If I were to make public these tapes, containing blunt and candid remarks on many different subjects, the confidentiality...
- If Jesus Christ were to come today people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner;...
- If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left...
- If a sufficient number of people who wanted to stop war really did gather together, they would first of...
- If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure? ...
- If ignorance paid dividends, most Americans could make a fortune out of what they don't know about economics. ...
- If it helps to make people think a little bit more what those ideals are, then I'll keep wearing...
- If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or...
- If the rich could hire someone else to die for them, the poor would make a wonderful living. ...
- If we can ... get them to understand that saying “no” to drugs is rebelling against their parents and...
- If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which...
- If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow...
- If you believe, then you hang on. If you believe, it means you've got imagination, you don't need stuff...
- If you can impress any man with an absorbing conviction of the supreme importance of some moral or religious...
- If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If...
- If you can't make it better, you can laugh at it. ...
- If you can't make the putts and can't get the man in from second on the bottom of the...
- If you cry Forward! you must without fail make plain in what direction to go. Don't you see that...
- If you don't make mistakes, you aren't really trying. ...
- If you get up one more time than you fall you will make it through. ...
- If you have love in your life it can make up for a great many things you lack. If...
- If you make a habit of sincere prayer, your life will be very noticeably and profoundly altered. Prayer stamps...
- If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate...
- If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. It is the...
- If you want to make certain a job gets done, give it to somebody who is really busy. They'll...
- If you want to succeed in the world you must make your own opportunities as you go on. The...
- If you want to touch the other shore badly enough, barring an impossible situation, you will. If your desire...
- If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you...
- If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you...
- If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you...
- If your religion does not make you holy, it will damn you. It is simply painted pageantry to go...
- If you've broken the eggs, you should make the omelette. ...
- I'll tell you why I like the cigarette business. It cost a penny to make. Sell it for a...
- I'm hard-nosed about luck. I think it sucks. Yeah, if you spend seven years looking for a job as...
- In all the work we do, our most valuable asset can be the attitude of self-examination. It is forgivable...
- In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to...
- In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak....
- In the U.S. you have to be a deviant or exist in extreme boredom...Make no mistake; all intellectuals are...
- In the life of children there are two very clear-cut phases, before and after puberty. Before puberty the child's...
- In the long run we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die....
- In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die....
- In those whom I like, I can find no common denominator; in those whom I love I can: they...
- Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. ...
- Inquisitiveness and strength make me want to rise above my valley-bound brothers. I must reach the summit to see...
- It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off....
- It has always seemed to me extreme presumptuousness on the part of those who want to make human ability...
- It is a common delusion that you can make things better by talking about them. ...
- It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction....
- It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check...
- It is important to do what you don't know how to do. It is important to see your skills...
- It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us...
- It is necessary for us to learn from others' mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them...
- It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds. ...
- It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor....
- It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and...
- It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To...
- It is true that wealth won't make a man virtuous, but I notice there ain't anybody who wants to...
- It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they...
- It is very important to make sure the person you're marrying is like minded. It's crucial for a couple...
- It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow necked bottles: the less they have in them, the more noise...
- It isn't the people you fire who make your life miserable, it's the people you don't. ...
- It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune; and...
- It takes 20 years to make an overnight success. ...
- It takes a person who is wide awake to make his dream come true. ...
- It takes all sorts to make a world. ...
- It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the...
- [Jesus'] ministry was clearly defined, and the alternatives to the illusion and temptations of the desert were spelled out....
- Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can,...
- Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.Small people always do that, but the really great make...
- Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself. ...
- Let him make use of instinct who cannot make use of reason. ...
- Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves...
- Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls...
- Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls...
- Let us make hay while the sun shines. ...
- Life ... would give her everything of consequence, life would shape her, not we. All we were good for...
- Life becomes religious whenever we make it so: when some new light is seen, when some deeper appreciation is...
- Life does not require us to make good; it asks only that we give our best at each level...
- Life is 10% what you make it, and 90% how you take it. ...
- Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a...
- Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling...
- Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it. ...
- Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it...
- Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, help to make earth happy like the heaven above. ...
- Little ol' boy in the Panhandle told me the other day you can still make a small fortune in...
- Lonely people talking to each other can make each other lonelier. ...
- Lord, make me an instrument of your peace; where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is...
- Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and...
- Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping...
- Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. ...
- Love doesn't make the world go 'round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile. ...
- Love is a choice you make from moment to moment. ...
- Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once...
- Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once...
- Magic is believing in yourself. If you can do that, you can make anything happen. ...
- Make decisions from the strong part of you, not the weak. ...
- Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler. ...
- Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you…. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and...
- Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come. ...
- Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world. ...
- Make no judgements where you have no compassion. ...
- Make no little plans. They have no Magic to stir Men's blood. ...
- Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood.... Make big plans... aim high in hope...
- Make sure to be in with your equals if you're going to fall out with your superiors. ...
- Make sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, and you can't settle...
- Make the iron hot by striking it. ...
- Make the most of your regrets. . . . To regret deeply is to live afresh. ...
- Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. ...
- Make voyages! Attempt them...there's nothing else. ...
- Make yourself familiar with the angels, and behold them frequently in spirit; for without being seen, they are present...
- Man is a make-believe animal - he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part....
- Men make the mistake of thinking that because women can't see the sense in violence, they must be passive...
- Misery is when you make your bed and then your mother tells you it's the day she's changing the...
- Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had...
- Most comics make jokes to defend themselves against what they see as a hostile and inhumane world … often...
- Most comics make jokes to defend themselves against what they see as a hostile and inhumane world … often...
- Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds...
- Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose...
- Most of us are just about as happy as we make up our minds to be. ...
- Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. ...
- Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make...
- Much as we might wish to believe otherwise, universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole...
- Much as we might wish to believe otherwise, universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole...
- Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which most...
- My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are easy; you don't make them because they...
- My business is not to remake myself, but to make the absolute best of what God made. ...
- My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make....
- Nature is neutral. Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or to make...
- Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. ...
- Never esteem anything as an advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect....
- Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect....
- Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect....
- Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language. ...
- Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life. ...
- No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it. ...
- No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the...
- No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. ...
- No power on earth or above the bottomless pit has such influence to terrorize and make cowards of men...
- Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent. ...
- Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city,...
- Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short. ...
- Nothing happens by itself...it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come...
- Of all the beautiful truths pertaining to the soul None is more gladdening or fruitful than to know You...
- Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of...
- Of course I don't always enjoy being a mother. At those times my husband and I hole up somewhere...
- Of course life is bizarre, the more bizarre it gets, the more interesting it is. The only way to...
- One does not make friends. One recognizes them. ...
- One mind awake can awaken another, The second awake can awaken their next door brother. Three awake can awaken...
- One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks. ...
- One of these days in your travels, a guy is going to come up to you and show you...
- One only needs two tools in life: WD-40 to make things go, and duct tape to make them stop....
- One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes...and the choices we...
- Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can. ...
- Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self-esteem. If you...
- Our lives don't really belong to us, you see - they belong to the world, and in spite of...
- Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker...
- Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore. ...
- Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive. ...
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