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  1. A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances. |
     

    Knowledge & Intelligence

    #878

  2. A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn. |
     

    Struggle, challenges and difficulties

    #875 source

  3. If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn. |
     

    Knowledge & Intelligence

    #877

  4. You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. |
     

    Mankind

    #876

  5. The problem with quick and dirty, is that the dirty remains long after the quick has been forgotten. |
     

    Design

    #874

  6. Support bacteria – they’re the only culture some people have. |
     

    Mankind

    #872

  7. In school, every period ends with a bell. Every sentence ends with a period. Every crime ends with a sentence. |
     

    Poetry

    #871

  8. I couldn’t repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder. |
     

    Technology

    #870

  9. Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire. |
     

    Poetry

    #868

  10. Bills travel through the mail at twice the speed of checks. |
     

    Struggle, challenges and difficulties

    #867

  11. A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory. |
     

    Knowledge & Intelligence

    #866

  12. Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time. |
     

    Knowledge & Intelligence

    #865

  13. Complaining is silly. Either act or forget. |
     

    Struggle, challenges and difficulties

    #863

  14. To find ideas, find problems. To find problems, talk to people. |
     

    Creativity

    #862

  15. It does not make sense to hire smart people and then tell them what to do. We hire smart people to tell us what to do. |
     

    Career

    #861

  16. Leave it better than you found it. |
     

    Career

    #860

  17. It is when our hearts are stirred that we become most aware of what they contain. |
     

    Struggle, challenges and difficulties

    #858

  18. Leaders who don't listen will eventually be surrounded by people who have nothing to say. |
     

    Knowledge & Intelligence

    #857

  19. Standards are like toothbrushes, everybody agrees you should have one, but no one wants to use yours. |
     

    Design

    #856

  20. L'arbre est devant la fenêtre du salon. Je l'interroge chaque matin: Quoi de neuf aujourd'hui? La réponse vient sans tarder, donnée par des centaines de feuilles: Tout. |
     

    Happiness

    #855

  21. A man can be destroyed but not defeated. |
     

    Struggle, challenges and difficulties

    #854 source

  22. The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology. |
     

    Technology

    #852

  23. I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us. |
     

    Mankind

    #851

  24. Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to. |
     

    Technology

    #850