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If you find yourself occasionally running on empty and searching for some encouragement, inspiration or perhaps even just a chuckle or two, you’ve come to the right place! Check these out:

• “You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.” – Jack London
• “If I own company FOO, I don’t need employees with a passion for FOO. I want those with a passion for the work they’re doing. The company should behave just like a good user interface.” – Kathy Sierra
• “No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.” – Michael Pritchard
• “We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic.” – David Russell
• “The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they’re going to have some pretty annoying virtues.” – Elizabeth Taylor
• “When you’re through changing, you’re through.” – Bruce Barton
• “Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.” – Abraham Lincoln
• “Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.” – Peter Drucker
• “If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.” – Henry David Thoreau
• “Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually seem to become mild, harmless, engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people’s characters.” – Margaret Halsey
• “You can never learn less. You can only learn more.” – Buckminster Fuller
• “I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.” – James Thurber
• “It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety. – Isaac Asimov
• “If there is ever another war in Europe, it will come out of some damned silly thing in the Balkans.” – Otto von Bismarck (1898)
• “A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation. – Bertrand Russel
• “Ours is the age that is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.” – H. Mumford Jones
• “The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.” – Ferdinand Foch
• “No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.” – Jascha Heifetz
• “Anger is the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind.” – Evan Eser
• “Basic research is what I am doing when I don’t know what I am doing.” – Wernher von Braun
• “If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of some expert saying it couldn’t be done.” – Peter Ustinov
• “In the history of the world, there always has been and always will be more horse’s asses than horses.” – Jeffrey Fry
• “Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.” – Orson Welles
• “Quit worrying about your health. It’ll go away.” – Robert Orben
• “There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.” – Emile Chartier
• “With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist attacks, are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?” – Jay Leno
• “Men are not against you. They are merely for themselves.” – Gene Fowler
• “I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!” – Tom Lehrer
• “Acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.” – Ambrose Bierce
• “If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.” – Isaac Asimov
• “If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.” – Abraham Lincoln

And finally, as a final pithy thought (try to say that real fast three times!) before you go on with your day:

• “Men who never get carried away should be.” – Malcolm Forbes

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