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1. The most imaginative people are the most gullible, because everything is possible for them.
2. The bigger the lie, the more likely we are to believe it.
3. Few have happiness, but all have summer.
4. What history has taught us is this. That people and governments have never learned anything from history.
5. The biggest difference between fools and the wise is that fools always do the same stupid things, while the wise always come up with new ones
6. There are cures for everything but death.
7. We can envy animals for two things: they are not afraid of future accidents, nor do they care what people talk about.
8. For atheists - why do you mock and oppose something that doesn't even exist?
9. The ultimate touchstone for a gentleman: to value people from whom he has not the slightest benefit.
10. Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only sludge of new bureaucracy.
11. All humans are animals; the princes are animals that are not chained.
12. The ability to think differently today than yesterday separates the wise from the stubborn.
13. Happiness comes from living, not from buying.
14. The better you are at putting things off, the less you need to be involved in everything else.
15. Some grow under responsibility, others just swell.
16. Tyrants rarely lack excuses.
17. I can sum up everything I've learned about life in few words: it goes on.
18. We fight bureaucrats best by following their regulations.
19. A friend in power is a friend lost.
20. Gentleman has never heard the story before.
21. There is a simple solution to every complex problem - which one is wrong.
22. All people believe that God is on their side. The rich know it is so.
23. Ability is what you can do. Motivation determines what you do. Your attitude determines how well you do it.
24. The fewer different functions the device has, the better it works and lasts. Example; Compare a hammer to a car.
25. What is called optimism is often the result of inadequate thinking.
26. The work is probably good, but it takes so damn much time.
27. I could do everything better, if I could do it all over again.
28. Bureaucracy defends the status quo long after the status quo has lost its quo.
29. Behind every great man there is a woman and in front of a great woman there is a man standing in the way.
30. Any self-criticism in the presence of others is indirect self-praise. It shows how much you can afford to give up.
31. The ability to forget the uncomfortable is a wonderful gift.
32. What I am not obliged to do, or do not like to do, and what is of no use to me, I normally don't do.
33. You will succeed faster in getting thousands of men to join you by appealing to their prejudices than get a man with you by logic.
34. God was pleased with his work. That was his big mistake.
35. What we humans value in this world are not rights, but privileges.
36. Work teaches its doer.
37. Democracy is a form of government built on exchanging views. The problem is that it only becomes effective when people stop exchanging opinions.
38. Happiness is good health and bad memory.
39. As soon as Adam got the chance, he blamed the woman.
40. He who never thinks about his health, will later have to think about his illnesses.
41. The emergency will find ways.
42. Nothing can be explained so clearly that everyone would understand.
43. Learn to tune into another frequency in time. If you listen to too much advices, you may end up making the mistakes of others.
44. What you resist determines how you become.
45. The work always stretches to the extent of the available time.
46. Democracy is a bad form of government, but the alternatives are worse.
47. A little subjectivity can save you tons of explaining.
48. If you always speak the truth, then you never have to remember what you have said.
49. Any system that relies on human reliability is unreliable.
50. It would be nice to live if I was lucky, in good health and not too much imagination.
51. We recognize old age that we do not learn new things and that we do not forget old things.
52. We give nothing as cheap as advices.
53. Learn from the mistakes of others, because you won't live long enough to make them all yourself.
54. The belief that I already know prevents me from learning new things.
55. The main abilities of us humans, which have a devastating effect on life here on earth, are our intelligence and ability to cooperate.
56. You can deceive your superiors but not your subordinates.
57. Democracy is a social system where you say what you think and do what you are told.
58. A little lie improves speech.
59. If you always say "let's see", nothing ever happens.
60. All development begins in chaos.
61. Ten dollars in a fool's hand can be enough for more pleasures than a million in a rich man's safe.
62. With both feet on the ground, you won't get far.
63. Learn to say no. Don't let your mouth overload your back.
64. That a woman always gets the last word is because men can think of nothing else.
65. The chief virtue is to restrain yourself and keep your tongue right in your mouth.
66. You can believe in God or in yourself. The safest thing is to trust in yourself.
67. The dictator's attitude to election practice is - The most important thing is who counts the votes.
68. In a hierarchical organization, an employee has the opportunity to advance to a position that corresponds to his incompetence.
69. If you always only intend to do, then things will be half done.
70. Everything assembled falls apart sooner or later.
71. In theory there is no difference between theory and practice, but in practice a lot.
72. Asking is teaching.
73. Often, many denials resemble a desperate attempt to get the toothpaste back in the tube.
74. The optimist believes that the future is uncertain.
75. It is good you arrive on time, but you leave on time is better.
76. The most important information in the hierarchy is to know who knows what.
77. In the moment of victory, I deserve champagne, in defeat I need it.
78. A diplomat is a man who remembers a woman's birthday, but forgets her age.
79. Silence is better than meaningless words. Don't say a little in many words, but a lot in a few words.
80. If you let things go by themselves, their development will inevitably be for the worse.
81. All reputation is dangerous: the good follows envy, and the bad shame.
82. Cynic: A villain who has a defect in his eyes, sees the world as it is, not as it should be
83. Many people think they are thinking, when in fact they are just sorting through their prejudices.
84. The optimist sees opportunities in every problem. The pessimist sees problems in every opportunity.
85. Changing your mind is not a crime.
86. The most important thing is not that you never fall, but that you get up after each fall.
87. Even winners get scars.
88. We hang petty thieves and raise our hats to the big ones.
89. If you live beyond your means, you suffer from a lack of imagination.
90. What does not kill, makes stronger.
91. Lots of men in this world have started from the bottom - and stayed there.
92. Adventure is the result of bad planning.
93. Implementation of changes is important in management. Making changes before others is creativity.
94. More important for success is being competent than popular.
95. Can billions of flies be wrong? Eat you too, shit!
96. Progress is the work of the discontented.
97. History does not repeat itself - only historians repeat themselves.
98. Everything is funny as long as it happens to someone else.
99. Many of us humans spend our lives brooding over the past, worrying about the present and fearing the future.
100. The seven deadly sins: wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, science without humanity, knowledge without character, politics without principles, commerce without morality, worship without sacrifice.

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