As a matter of selective necessity, man is an agent. He is, in his own apprehension, a centre of unfolding impulsive activity; "teleological activity." He is an agent seeking in every act the accomplishment of some concrete, objective, impersonal end. By force of being such an agent, he is possessed of a taste for effective work, and a distaste for futile effort. ~Thorstein Veblen
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The necessity for "professionals" in the entertainment industry is being constantly challenged. ~Jason Alexander
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A short visit is best and that not too often. ~Irish Proverb
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It is an equal failing to trust everybody, and to trust nobody. ~English Proverb
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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old. ~English Proverb.
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It's never over. You don't want to be in the position to be down four runs in the ninth inning, but it's not over until the last out. ~Derek Jeter
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The unexpected stalks a farm in big boots like a vagrant bent on havoc. Not every farmer is an inventor, but the good ones have the seeds of invention within them. Economy and efficiency move their relentless tinkering and yet the real motive often seems to be aesthetic. The mind that first designed a cutter bar is not far different from a mind that can take the intractable steel of an outsized sickle blade and make it hum in the end. The question is how to reduce the simplicity that constitutes a problem to the greater simplicity that constitutes a solution. ~Verlyn Klinkenborg
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All that is necessary, as it seems to me, to convince any reasonable person that the Bible is simply and purely of human invention; of barbarian invention; is to read it. Read it as you would any other book; think of it as you would of any other; get the bandage of reverence from your eyes; drive from your heart the phantom of fear; push from the throne of your brain the cowled form of superstition; then read the Holy Bible, and you will be amazed that you ever, for one moment, supposed a being of infinite wisdom, goodness and purity, to be the author of such ignorance and of such atrocity. ~Robert Green Ingersoll
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There is nothing noble about being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self. ~Hindu Proverb
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Anger is a bad counselor. ~French Proverb
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Our deepest mature conviction is that finite and infinite interpenetrate, as time and eternity interpenetrate, and our problems must be solved in the light of that conviction. ~Lily Dougall
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Speedy exception is the mother of good fortune. ~Proverb
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A wise man hears one word and understands two. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. ~Moorish Proverb
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Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies. ~Spanish Proverb
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An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest. ~Spanish Proverb
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If you want to be criticized, marry. ~Irish Proverb
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There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. ~Chinese Proverb
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A thief believes everybody steals. ~Proverb
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The greatest love is a mother's; then a dog's; then a sweetheart's. ~Polish Proverb
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A monkey never thinks her baby is ugly. ~Haitian Proverb
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Mother is a verb, not a noun. ~Proverb
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It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself. ~Latin Proverb
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A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. ~Irish Proverb
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Silence is medication for sorrow. ~Arabic Proverb
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