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Too many would-be executives are slaves of routine.

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Pythagoras

Don't try to cover your mistakes with false words. Rather, correct your mistakes with examination.

Examination, Failure, False, Mistake, Trying, Words

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Man know thyself; then thou shalt know the Universe and God.

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Let not sleep fall upon thy eyes till thou has thrice reviewed the transactions of the past day. Where have I turned aside from rectitude? What have I been doing? What have I left undone, which I ought to have done?

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Government exists only for the good of the governed.

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It is only necessary to make war with five things; with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city and the discords of families.

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In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on.

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Thomas B. Macaulay

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The study of the properties of numbers, Plato tells us, habituates the mind to the contemplation of pure truth, and raises us above the material universe. He would have his disciples apply themselves to this study, not that they may be able to buy or sell, not that they may qualify themselves to be shopkeepers or travelling merchants, but that they may learn to withdraw their minds from the ever-shifting spectacle of this visible and tangible world, and to fix them on the immutable essences of things.

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Frank Auerbach

I destroy things every day in the act of working and often recall a picture I had considered finished in order to rework it.

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Felicity Jones

Felicity Jones

As a child, I always liked dressing up and getting into character, and actors are lucky in being able to retain that playfulness, though we do seem to find it hard to grow up.

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James Cash Penney

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Too many would-be executives are slaves of routine.

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Henry Rollins

Henry Rollins

Girls aren't beautiful, they're pretty. Beautiful is too heavy a word to assign to a girl. Women are beautiful because their faces show that they know they have lost something and picked up something else.

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