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Imagination is cheap as long as you don't have to worry about the details.
 
The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think.
 
Few persons care to study logic, because everybody conceives himself to be proficient enough in the art of reasoning already.
 
Half of the people in the world are below average.
 
I believe the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in that religion or this religion, we are all seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness.
 
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
 
To be conspicuous by one's absence and listened to by one's silence are two little masterpieces of vanity.
 
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
 
When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing to do is to die at once.
 
The aim of management science is to display the best course of action in a given set of circumstances, and this must include all the circumstances.
 
If a rat is a good model for your emotional life, you're in big trouble.
 
Intelligence is not about knowing the answers but about asking the questions.
 
Opposing reason is, by definition, unreasonable.
 
In this century we have made remarkable material progress, but basically we are the same as we were thousands of years ago. Our spiritual needs are still very great.
 
A poll conducted by The Washington Post found that 80 percent of Katrina's survivors claim that the event only strengthened their faith in God.
 
The more income inequality, the less likely people are to help someone (in an experimental setting) and the less generous and cooperative they are in economic games.
 
A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
 
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results, not attributes.
 
Looking out of my window this lovely spring morning I see an azalea in full bloom. No, no! I do not see that; though that is the only way I can describe what I see. That is a proposition, a sentence, a fact; but what I perceive is not proposition, sentence, fact, but only an image which I make intelligible in part by means of a statement of fact. This statement is abstract; but what I see is concrete.
 
We know what we are, but know not what we may be. 
 
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