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There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

—David Letterman

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The chief business of the American people is business.

—Calvin Coolidge

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

—Benjamin Franklin

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The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.

—Ambrose Bierce

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Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

—Aldus Manutius

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Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy.

—Charles Peters

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The human brain is a most unusual instrument of elegant and as yet unknown capacity.

—Will Cuppy

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Estimated amount of glucose used by an adult human brain each day, expressed in M&Ms: 250

—Stuart Seaton

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The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.

—Robert Frost

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It's essential to tailor rehab to what impassions someone. The brain gradually learns by riveting its attention-through endless repetitions.

—Harper's Index

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Exercising self-restraint can be depleting, yet it can also be ennobling.

—George Jessel

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If there is anything in the world that can really be called a man's property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity.

—Diane Ackerman

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Thinking rationally is often different from "positive thinking," in that it is a realistic assessment of the situation, with a view towards rectifying the problem if possible.

—Ambrose Bierce

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What a splendid head, yet no brain.

—Aesop

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[S]he refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.

—Zelda Fitzgerald

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