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One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.

by Edward Abbey (Author, American , born in 1927) keywords: alone, man , teamwork

The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.

by Agha Hasan Abedi (Businessman, Pakistani , born in 1922) keywords: conventional, definition, developing, done, getting, management, real, through , work

You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values.

by Peter Abrahams (Novelist, South African , born in 1919) keywords: alone, culture, history, illusion , values

I read our emails every day and I know there are people out there who think I'm awful.

by Dan Abrams (Journalist, American , born in 1966) keywords: awful, emails, know, read , think

John Quincy Adams

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

by John Quincy Adams (President, American , born in 1767) keywords: alone, cherish, principle , vote

Dante Alighieri

Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.

by Dante Alighieri (Poet, Italian , born in 1265) keywords: blast , tower

It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.

by Josh Billings (Comedian, American , born in 1970) keywords: forgive , man

The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.

by Van Wyck Brooks (Critic, American , born in 1886) keywords: creative, impulses, man, possessive , war

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

by Samuel Butler (Poet, British , born in 1835) keywords: criminals, dead, doubt , judged

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

by Lord Byron (Poet, British , born in 1970) keywords: architecture, dress, man, painting, poetry , school

Few artists can afford artistic temperament.

by Mason Cooley (Writer, American , born in 1927) keywords: artistic, artists , temperament

A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences.

by Norman Cousins (Editor, American , born in 1915) keywords: being, consequences, dwelling, human , nothing

The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.

by Norman Cousins (Editor, American , born in 1915) keywords: death, feeling, inspired, life , man

Albert Einstein

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

by Albert Einstein (Physicist, German , born in 1879) keywords: look, man, should , thinks

Albert Einstein

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

by Albert Einstein (Physicist, German , born in 1879) keywords: anything, made, mistake, never, new, person , tried

Albert Einstein

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?

by Albert Einstein (Physicist, German , born in 1879) keywords: am, crazy, drives, hazy, others, question , sometimes

Albert Einstein

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

by Albert Einstein (Physicist, German , born in 1879) keywords: bowl, chair, does, else, fruit, happy, man, need, table , violin

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