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Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made

Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man – who has no gills. – Ambrose Bierce

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Experience – the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced. – Ambrose Bierce

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Logic, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. – Ambrose Bierce

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The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself. – John Kenneth Galbraith

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Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness. – Benjamin Disraeli

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Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations, they will struggle and snatch from each other, and inclinations to defer or yield will die. – Xun Zi

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As you sit on the hillside, or lie prone under the trees of the forest, or sprawl wet-legged by a mountain stream, the great door, that does not look like a door, opens. – Stephen Graham, The Gentle Art of Tramping

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I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained. – Walt Disney

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Ive been doing a lot of learning from mistakes, first and foremost, and building off that. – William Green

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There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write. – Thomas Carlyle

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The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency – the belief that the here and now is all there is. – Allan Bloom

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