quotes_and_sayings

> The graveyards are full of irreplaceable men. 
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> \- Elbert Hubbard [?*](https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/11/21/graveyards-full/)

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> Nobody wants to be the boss, so our bosses are the best kind. 
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> \- Bud Smith [*](https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/10/29/truck-desk/)

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> Adding car lanes to deal with traffic congestions is like loosening your belt to cure obesity.
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>  \- [Lewis Mumford](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Mumford), 1955

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> If you clean out the vacuum cleaner, you become the vacuum cleaner.
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> \- Unknown

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> "The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark." 
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> \- John Muir

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> "This is the trouble with dictatorships: they really don't do succession well. It's why elections are so convenient."
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> \- Sarah Paine

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> "If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly."
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> \- G.K. Chesterton

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> "There is no perfect country. If there is, don't move there. You'll ruin it."
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> \- [Geography Now](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvyAR8YSLWM)

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> Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
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> \- ? ( https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/05/13/einstein-simple/ )

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> I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.
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> \- Blaise Pascal

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> Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
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> \- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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edited by: stefs at Wednesday, March 11, 2026, 2:59:58 PM Coordinated Universal Time


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