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What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting. -Proverb
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Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it. -Don Herold
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Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million. -Shaw, George Bernard
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Drucker, Peter F.
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Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds. -Buck, Pearl S.
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My life is a battle. -Voltaire
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"A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes" – Mark Twain
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