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Casey Stengel:Ability is the art of getting


Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
by Casey Stengel


Abraham Cowley:Begin, be bold, and venture to be


Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise; He who defers his work from day to day, Does on a river's bank expecting stay; Till the whole stream which stopped him should be gone, That runs, and as it runs, for ever will run on.
by Abraham Cowley


Richard H. Brien:At some time in the life cycle


At some time in the life cycle of virtually every organization, its ability to succeed in spite of itself runs out.
by Richard H. Brien


Václav Havel:Anyone who takes himself too


Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.
by Václav Havel


James Ray:He that fights and runs away, May turn


He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.
by James Ray


Lord Byron:When the green woods laugh with the


When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it.
by Lord Byron


Lewis Thomas:The thrush in my back yard sings


The thrush in my back yard sings down his nose in liquid runs of melody, over and over again, and I have the strongest impression that he does this for his own pleasure. It is a meditative, questioning kind of music, and I cannot believe that he issimply saying "thrush here."
by Lewis Thomas


Miguel de Cervantes:'Tis said of love that it


'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.
by Miguel de Cervantes


Book of Dzyan:...The eternal vital power builds


...The eternal vital power builds them in the likeness of older worlds, placing them on the Imperishable Centres. How does he build them? He collects the fiery dust. He makes balls of fire, runs through them, and round them, infusing life there into, then sets them into motion; some one way, some the other way. They are cold, he makes them hot. They are dry, he makes them moist. They shine, he fans and cools them. Thus he acts from one twilight to the other, during Seven Eternities.
by Book of Dzyan


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