Business Wit & WisdomBeard Books, 2005 - 316 páginas Compendium of sayings, quips, and wise insights related to the business world. |
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... there are also honored standards of religious humor, such as those dealing with preachers who talk forever or have particularly effective ways of getting their points across to their congregations. Speaking from the clergy's point of ...
... there are also honored standards of religious humor, such as those dealing with preachers who talk forever or have particularly effective ways of getting their points across to their congregations. Speaking from the clergy's point of ...
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... there were 15 months in every year , I'd only be 52. That's the trouble with us – we number everything . Take women , for example . I think women deserve more than 12 years between the ages of 28 and 40 . —James Thurber Midlife crisis ...
... there were 15 months in every year , I'd only be 52. That's the trouble with us – we number everything . Take women , for example . I think women deserve more than 12 years between the ages of 28 and 40 . —James Thurber Midlife crisis ...
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... there . You know you're old when you discover that your children are learning in history class what you studied in ... there's nothing you can do . —Golda Meir , former Prime Minister of Israel Growing old is not upsetting ; being ...
... there . You know you're old when you discover that your children are learning in history class what you studied in ... there's nothing you can do . —Golda Meir , former Prime Minister of Israel Growing old is not upsetting ; being ...
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... There was no respect for youth when I was young , and now that I am old , there is no respect for age – I missed it coming and going . —J.B. Priestly One of the subtle differences among the generations : people over 35 generally know ...
... There was no respect for youth when I was young , and now that I am old , there is no respect for age – I missed it coming and going . —J.B. Priestly One of the subtle differences among the generations : people over 35 generally know ...
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... there's a cook . —Ronald Reagan , Speaking My Mind ( Simon & Schuster ) Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God . When agnostics die , do they go to the great perhaps ? -Heywood Broun —Pan American ...
... there's a cook . —Ronald Reagan , Speaking My Mind ( Simon & Schuster ) Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God . When agnostics die , do they go to the great perhaps ? -Heywood Broun —Pan American ...
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Página 196 - Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here ?' 'That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said the Cat. 'I don't much care where ' said Alice. 'Then it doesn't matter which way you go,
Página 191 - Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
Página 254 - Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Página 220 - I do the very best I know how — the very best I can ; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.
Página 75 - We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it — and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again — and that is well ; but also she will never sit down on a cold one any more.
Página 129 - The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
Página 256 - I hear, and I forget; I see, and I remember; I do, and I understand.
Página 210 - The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread'.
Página 95 - Let us weigh the gain and the loss in wagering that God is. Let us estimate these two chances. If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation that He is. "That is very fine. Yes, I must wager; but I may perhaps wager too much.