Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
- Henry Ford - In Old Age
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You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.
- Harrison Ford - In Old Age
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Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford - In Business
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A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
- Henry Ford - In Business
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The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
- Henry Ford - In Business
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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
- Harrison Ford - In On Change
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Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.
- Clifford Stoll - In Computers
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As I rejected amnesty, so I reject revenge. I ask all Americans who ever asked for goodness and mercy in their lives, who ever sought forgiveness for their trespasses, to join in rehabilitating all the casualties of the tragic conflict of the past.
- Gerald R. Ford - In Forgiveness
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The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion.
- Lewis Mumford - In Government
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History is more or less bunk.
- Henry Ford - In History
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The three-martini lunch is the epitome of American efficiency. Where else can you get an earful, a bellyful and a snootful at the same time?
- Gerald R. Ford - In History
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When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.
- Natalie Clifford Barney - In Love
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Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.
- Mary Pickford - In Movies
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I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?
- Robert Redford - In Nature
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I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, who were pretty hard up for linemen in those days. If I had gone into professional football the name Jerry Ford might have been a household word today.
- Gerald R. Ford - In Sports
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I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators.
- Gerald R. Ford - In Sports
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Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.
- Frank Gifford - In Sports
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Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
- Frank Gifford - In Sports
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Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea - massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it.
- Gene Spafford - In Technology
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The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity.
- Clifford Stoll - In Technology
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Spending an evening on the World Wide Web is much like sitting down to a dinner of Cheetos, two hours later your fingers are yellow and you're no longer hungry, but you haven't been nourished.
- Clifford Stoll - In Technology
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Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users?
- Clifford Stoll - In Technology
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There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
- Henry Ford - In Workplace
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