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They who act without sufficient thought, will often fall into unsuspected danger.
Aesop (620 BC-560 BC)

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)

One element about performance is clear "Nobody can be at the top of their game unless they love what their doing. Freud put it simply. Life really is all about love and work"
Caliper a Princeton, N.J.-based management-consulting firm:

Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

So wise so young, they say, do never live long.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the others willing to let them.
American poet Robert Frost

To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)

A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much.
Homer (900 BC-800 BC)

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC)

There is no good ... in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. ... The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.
William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863)