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Quote by James Thurber
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far back

You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward. – James Thurber

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The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road. – James Thurber

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Knowledge
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James Thurber
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My opposition To Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language. – James Thurber

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Interviews
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James Thurber
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I was seized by the stern hand of Compulsion, that dark, unseasonable Urge that impels women to clean house in the middle of the night. – James Thurber

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Psychology
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Risk
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An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping hell quickly learn how to chew it. – Roy Ash

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Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk. – Arabic Proverb

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Risk

What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail? – Robert H. Schuller

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Risk

This nation was built by men who took risks — pioneers who were not afraid of the wilderness, business men who were not afraid of failure, scientists who were not afraid of the truth, thinkers who were not afraid of progress, dreamers who were not afraid of action. – Brooks Atkinson

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Risk

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The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins? – Edgar Allan Poe

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Mediocrity is self-inflicted and genius is self-bestowed. – Walter Russell

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Mediocrity

The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell. – Proverb

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Men marry because they are tired women, because they are curious both are disappointed. – Oscar Wilde

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