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For your edification, today I present a few choice bits of inspiration from the famous, the infamous, and the not-so-famous. And the fictional. Check these out:

• “In looking for someone to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. But the most important is integrity because if they don’t have that, the other two qualities, intelligence and energy, are going to kill you.” – Warren Buffet
• “If you want perfection, you gotta expect a few flaws.” - Wayne Strauss
• “When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.” – Thomas Szasz
• “Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.” – B. F. Skinner
• “This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.” – Dorothy Parker
• “The ultimate effect of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.” – Herbert Spencer
• “I was so naïve as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing.” – Johnny Carson
• “Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.” – Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
• “To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.” – Henri Bergson
• “The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.” – Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort
• “What luck for rulers than men do not think.” – Adolf Hitler
• “Things are only impossible until they’re not.” – Cpt. Jean-Luc Picard
• “A newspaper consists of the same number of words, whether there be news in it or not.” – Henry Fielding
• “When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.” – Arthur C. Clarke
• “My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.” – Stephen Wright
• “Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention to arrive safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming: Wow!! What a ride!” – Lou Karnazes
• “If you ask me to write a song about the ocean, I’m stumped. But if you tell me to write a ballad about a woman in a red dress falling off her stool at three in the morning, I’m inspired.” – Stephen Sondheim
• “We’ve heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true.” – Robert Wilensky
• “He hasn’t an enemy in the world – but all his friends hate him.” – Eddie Cantor
• “No matter what, I believe that in our quest to exploit the ‘We’ in Web, we must not sacrifice the ‘I’ in Internet.” – Kathy Sierra
• “The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.” – Frank Herbert
• “If you gave an infinite number of monkeys an infinite number of typewriters, eventually one of them would write Hey Hey We’re the Monkees!” – unknown
• “There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.” – Marshall McLuhan
• “I don’t mind what Congress does, as long as they don’t do it in the streets and frighten the horses.” – Victor Hugo
• “There are 350 varieties of shark, not counting loan or pool.” – L. M. Boyd
• “Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.” – Paul Valery
• “I struggle to be brief, and become obscure.” – Horace (Roman poet)
• “First you’re an unknown, then you write one book and move up to obscurity.” – Martin Myers
• “By all means marry; if you get a good wife you’ll be happy. If you get a bad one you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates
• “I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.” – John D. Rockefeller
• “Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.” – Franklin P. Jones
• “If life were fair, Elvis would still be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.” – Johnny Carson
• “The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.” – Flannery O’Conner

And to cap off this month’s edition of Great Quotes:

• “Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop.” – Lewis Carroll (from Alice in Wonderland)

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