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In science as in love, too much concentration on technique can often lead to impotence.
Science and Scientists
P. L. Berger

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It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.
Knowledge
Claude Bernard

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Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.
Success
Al Bernstein

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Lack of opportunity is often nothing more than lack of purpose or direction
Opportunity
Best of Bits and Pieces

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Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.
Conscience
Josh Billings

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When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime.
Eloquence
Josh Billings

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Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.
Fools and Foolishness
Nicholas Boileau

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You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your tricks of war.
Competition
Napoleon Bonaparte

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A sign of celebrity is often that their name is worth more than their services.
Fame
Daniel J. Boorstin

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Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.
Anger
John F. Boyes

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Satire is often the reflection of a kind of moral nausea.
Critics and Criticism
Crand Briton

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.
Change
Les Brown

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Jesting is often only indigence of intellect.
Jest
Jean De La Bruyere

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Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.
Anger
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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The mark of a true MBA is that he is often wrong but seldom in doubt.
Education
Robert Buzzell

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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.
Experience
Cadman

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I wept as I remembered how often you and I had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky.
Nostalgia
Callimachus

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There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
Proverbs
Thomas Carlyle

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Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.
Fatigue
Dale Carnegie

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It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven.
Fame
Nicolas Caussin

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Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
Procrastination
Miguel De Cervantes

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Everyone is as God made him, and often a great deal worse.
Humankind
Miguel De Cervantes

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When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.
Law and Lawyers
Miguel De Cervantes

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Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.
Heart
Lord Chesterfield

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The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.
Enemies
Chinese Proverb

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun