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Frank Dane. Photo: Mediacourant

Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.
- Frank Dane

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.
- Voltaire

There are more fools in the world than there are people.
- Heinrich Heine

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
- Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love, 1963

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
- Isaac Newton

The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
- Robert Frost

It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
- Frank Tyger

Life is a long lesson in humility.
- James M. Barrie

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.
- D. H. Lawrence

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