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3 December 2020 Gordon Moore

With engineering, I view this year’s failure as next year’s opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly.

3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

3 December 2020 John Kenneth Galbraith

In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.

3 December 2020 James Russell Lowell

Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.

3 December 2020 Peter Drucker

Business, that’s easily defined – it’s other people’s money.

3 December 2020 Albert Camus

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

3 December 2020 Samuel Wilson

Moreover, environmental health at the local level has become narrowly focused, very much defined around regulations and the attendant regulatory debates.

3 December 2020 Clyde Tombaugh

I have a lot of sympathy for young people because I realize how disturbed I was. How would I deal with life in the future? What would I do for a living?

3 December 2020 Honore de Balzac

A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.

3 December 2020 Walter Scott

Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.

3 December 2020 Leonardo DiCaprio

The best thing about acting is that I get to lose myself in another character and actually get paid for it… It’s a great outlet. I’m not really sure who I am – it seems I change every day.

3 December 2020 H. L. Mencken

It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.

3 December 2020 Jennifer Aniston

I don’t know why women feel an affinity with me.

3 December 2020 Ezra Stiles

In justice to human society it may perhaps be said of almost all the polities and civil institutions in the world, however imperfect, that they have been founded in and carried on with very considerable wisdom.

3 December 2020 Mick Jagger

The past is a great place and I don’t want to erase it or to regret it, but I don’t want to be its prisoner either.

3 December 2020 Thomas J. Watson

If you aren’t playing well, the game isn’t as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid.

3 December 2020 Tory Burch

For me, if I can design beautiful things that have the price be lower, I am thrilled.

3 December 2020 Benny Green

We have fun, we listen to one another, we challenge one another, we trust one another. We’re doing what we enjoy, and we’re not just playing for each other, we’re playing for the people.

3 December 2020 Bob Newhart

I think one reason for a successful marriage is laughter. I think laughter gets you through the rough moments in a marriage.

3 December 2020 Alan Shepard

I must admit, maybe I am a piece of history after all.

3 December 2020 Alfred Lord Tennyson

A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.

3 December 2020 Augustus Y. Napier

Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead.

3 December 2020 Bill Gates

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

3 December 2020 Will Smith

Money and success don’t change people they merely amplify what is already there.

3 December 2020 George Santayana

The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.

3 December 2020 Josh Billings

Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.

3 December 2020 Rita Dove

Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine.

3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

3 December 2020 Samuel Butler

The want of money is the root of all evil.

3 December 2020 Ludwig van Beethoven

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

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