#oft

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#education #glory #man #more #natural

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us. ↗

— Jane Austen

#different #different things #may #more #often

Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim. ↗

— Jane Austen

#aim #destroys #distinction #dress #excessive

When I was young in L.A. and I couldn't get into clubs or restaurants, I would call imitating celebrities and get a table, and it would work often. I was either Stallone or Mickey Rourke: 'This is Sly. I may be late, but my buddy Hank will be there early.' ↗

— Hank Azaria

#call #celebrities #clubs #early #either

I was trying to make something really hard, but then I thought I should make something really soft instead, that could be molded into different shapes. That was how I came up with the first plastic. I called it Bakelite. ↗

— Leo Baekeland

#came #could #different #different shapes #first

There's the classic charitable contribution, which we receive thousands, and we're extremely grateful and they often come with notes from people, which are very heartwarming, about how much difference our products have made in their life on the Internet. ↗

— Mitchell Baker

#charitable #classic #come #contribution #difference

We have a very active testing community which people don't often think about when you have open source. ↗

— Mitchell Baker

#active #community #often #open #open source

For most people, we often marvel at the beauty of a sunrise or the magnificence of a full moon, but it is impossible to fathom the magnitude of the universe that surrounds us. ↗

— Richard H. Baker

#fathom #full #full moon #impossible #magnificence

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong. ↗

— Russell Baker

#almost #always #best #dead #educated

I think quite often a fate worse than death is life, for lots of people. ↗

— Tom Baker

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