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The dog, on the other hand, has few or no ideas because his brain acts in coarse fashion and because there are few connections with each single process. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

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Rather suffer than die is man's motto. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

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There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive. ↗

— B. C. Forbes

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The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

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We have been restraining the growth of the cost of education-that is, tuition, room and board-to be within approximately one and a half percentage points of the consumer price index. ↗

— Charles Vest

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We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

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In those days there was not so much pressure on us. ↗

— Just Fontaine

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Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike. ↗

— Margot Fonteyn

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Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business. ↗

— Malcolm Forbes

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I think making mistakes and discovering them for yourself is of great value, but to have someone else to point out your mistakes is a shortcut of the process. ↗

— Shelby Foote

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