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Quotes by American Authors

"Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up."

"I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free."

"Junk is the ideal product... the ultimate merchandise. No sales talk necessary. The client will crawl through a sewer and beg to buy."

"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things."

"I like cappuccino, actually. But even a bad cup of coffee is better than no coffee at all."

"Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important."

"Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people."

"We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics."

"Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas."

"I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said."

"When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it."

"Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out."

"Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation."

"People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else."

"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower."

"Avoid popularity if you would have peace."

"A manager is not a person who can do the work better than his men; he is a person who can get his men to do the work better than he can."

"Our capacity to retaliate must be, and is, massive in order to deter all forms of aggression."

"Information is the resolution of uncertainty."

"Every sunrise is an invitation for us to arise and brighten someone's day."

"Communism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declared war against Almighty God."

"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."

"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him."


"I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is."

"I would like to see the day when somebody would be appointed surgeon somewhere who had no hands, for the operative part is the least part of the work."

"We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the safeguard of our property and our liberty and our property under the Constitution."

"What do I care about law? Ain't I got the power?"

"Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive."

"Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference."

"Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated."

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."

"Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose."

"You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction."

"If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost."

"When preparing to climb a mountain - pack a light heart."

"The willingness of America's veterans to sacrifice for our country has earned them our lasting gratitude."
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