Alfred Hitchcock: Quote for November 30, 2012

Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film.

-- Alfred Hitchcock

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Marlon Brando: Quote for November 29, 2012

Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.

-- Marlon Brando

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Lucky Luciano: Quote for November 28, 2012

Ever since we was kids, we always knew that people can be bought. It was only a question of who did the buyin' and for how much.

-- Lucky Luciano

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Bernard Baruch: Quote for November 27, 2012

Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

-- Bernard Baruch

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Greta Garbo: Quote for November 26, 2012

Every one of us lives his life just once; if we are honest, to live once is enough.

-- Greta Garbo

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Howard Hughes: Quote for November 25, 2012

There is nothing that interests me more than medical research and the quest for better living facilities, and better health and better medical standards, not only in the United States, but throughout the world. This, to me is where we should be concentrating our greatest efforts.

-- Howard Hughes

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John Wayne: Quote for November 24, 2012

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

-- John Wayne

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Nina Simone: Quote for November 23, 2012

Greed has driven the world crazy. And I think I'm lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home.

-- Nina Simone

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Henry Ward Beecher: Quote for November 22, 2012

Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

-- Henry Ward Beecher

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Anatole France: Quote for November 21, 2012

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.

-- Anatole France

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Barbara Grizzuti Harrison: Quote for November 20, 2012

The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.

-- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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Vidal Sassoon: Quote for November 19, 2012

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

-- Vidal Sassoon

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Eddie Rickenbacker: Quote for November 18, 2012

The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.

-- Eddie Rickenbacker

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Lao Tzu: Quote for November 17, 2012

Manifest plainness,
Embrace simplicity,
Reduce selfishness,
Have few desires.

-- Lao Tzu

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Anais Nin: Quote for November 16, 2012

Societies in decline have no use for visionaries.

-- Anais Nin

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Frederick William Robertson: Quote for November 15, 2012

In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

-- Frederick William Robertson

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Vincent Price: Quote for November 14, 2012

A man who limits his interests, limits his life.

-- Vincent Price

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Gore Vidal: Quote for November 13, 2012

Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

-- Gore Vidal

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Isaac Asimov: Quote for November 12, 2012

Science is dangerous. There is no question but that poison gas, genetic engineering, and nuclear weapons and power stations are terrifying. It may be that civilization is falling apart and the world we know is coming to an end. In that case, why not turn to religion and look forward to the Day of Judgment, ... [being] lifted into eternal bliss ... [and] watching the scoffers and disbelievers writhe forever in torment.

-- Isaac Asimov

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Zora Neale Hurston: Quote for November 11, 2012

I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.

-- Zora Neale Hurston

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Peter F. Drucker: Quote for November 10, 2012

Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.

-- Peter F. Drucker

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Buddha: Quote for November 9, 2012

The thought manifests as the word; The word manifests as the deed; The deed develops into habit; And habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care, And let it spring from love Born out of concern for all beings.

-- Buddha

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Karl Kraus: Quote for November 8, 2012

Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.

-- Karl Kraus

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Ludwig Wittgenstein: Quote for November 7, 2012

There are two godheads: the world and my independent I. I am either happy or unhappy, that is all. It can be said: good or evil do not exist. A man who is happy must have no fear. Not even in the face of death. Only a man who lives not in time but in the present is happy.

-- Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Jim Rohn: Quote for November 6, 2012

Learning is the beginning of wealth.
Learning is the beginning of health.
Learning is the beginning of spirituality.
Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

-- Jim Rohn

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