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• It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

  Mark Twain

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• Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don’t lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won’t stand up either.

  Evan Esar

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• Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

  Henry R. Luce

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• As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

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• I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

  Henry David Thoreau

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• Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

  William Wordsworth

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• Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

  Oscar Wilde

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• My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.

  Clara Schumann

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• All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

  Oscar Wilde

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• The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.

  Hendrik Willem van Loon

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• I think an artist’s responsibility is more complex than people realize.

  Jodie Foster

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• William BlakeYou never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

  William Blake

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• I have been no more than a medium, as it were.

  Henri Matisse

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• In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• Preparation for old age should begin not later than one’s teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

  Dwight L. Moody

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• We’ve put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.

  Frank Howard Clark

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• You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

  Bob Hope

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• I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

  Francis Bacon

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• Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

  André Maurois

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• Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey’s end.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

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