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The truth is more important than the facts.

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.
- Enrico Fermi

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward.
- Lewis Carroll

Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
- Alfred Hitchcock

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.
- Agatha Christie

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
- Willa Cather

Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.
- David Rockefeller

Today you can go to a gas station and find the cash register open and the toilets locked. They must think toilet paper is worth more than money.
- Joey Bishop

If you wouldst live long, live well, for folly and wickedness shorten life.
- Benjamin Franklin

Don't rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head.
- Andy Rooney




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