Have not prisons - which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than are met with on any other spot of the globe - always been universities of crime?
- Peter Kropotkin - In Art
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You've gotta be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for?
- Bernadette Peters - In Art
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There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.
- Peter F. Drucker - In Business
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Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.
- Peter F. Drucker - In Business
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Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.
- Peter F. Drucker - In Business
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Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.
- Peter F. Drucker - In Business
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An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
- Laurence J. Peter - In Business
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Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.
- Tom Peters - In Business
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Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.
- Irene Peter - In On Change
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Anyone who thinks there's safety in numbers hasn't looked at the stock market pages.
- Irene Peter - In On Change
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Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.
- Irene Peter - In On Change
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The computer is a moron.
- Peter F. Drucker - In Computers
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When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
- Peter F. Drucker - In Education
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You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.
- Laurence J. Peter - In Friendship
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The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.
- Peter Berger - In History
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Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
- Peter Ustinov - In Humor
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The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.
- Peter De Vries - In Humor
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I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel.
- Peter Nivio Zarlenga - In Imagination
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Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
- Peter Ustinov - In Love
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The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.
- Peter De Vries - In Marriage
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The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.
- Peter De Vries - In Marriage
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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.
- Peter Medawar - In Society
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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
- Peter F. Drucker - In Workplace
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Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.
- Laurence J. Peter - In Workplace
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