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LEONARD RAVENHILL It takes as much imagination to create debt as to create income. LEONARD ORR While we often huddle in groups of like-minded people, those with faith blaze a trail that threatens... LEONARD RAVENHILL The growth of affluence, the growth of education, has led to a shortage of morons. LEONARD NEAL The simplest single-celled organism oscillates to a number of different frequencies, at the atomic, ... GEORGE LEONARD History tells us more than we want to know about what is wrong with man, and we can hardly turn a pa... GEORGE LEONARD If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twen... STEW LEONARD The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting. GLORIA LEONARD Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors. LEONARD BERNSTEIN The second fiddle. I can get plenty of first violinists, but to find someone who can play the second... LEONARD BERNSTEIN I think it is time we learned the lesson of our century: that the progress of the human spirit must ... LEONARD BERNSTEIN A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, a... LEONARD BERNSTEIN When the thunder rumbles, Now the age of gold is dead. When the dreams we've clung to Tryin... LEONARD BERNSTEIN Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of th... LEONARD BERNSTEIN A customer who complains is my best friend. STEW LEONARD Rule number one: The customer is always right. Rule number two: If the customer is wrong, see rule n... STEVE LEONARD I know nothing about sex, because I was always married. GLORIA LEONARD Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of th... LEONARD BERNSTEIN Clarity affords focus. THOMAS LEONARD Touch seems to be such an important tool for enhancing social cooperation and affiliation that we ha... LEONARD MLODINOW My wife and I are affiliated with a temple here in Los Angeles. We feel very close to the congregati... LEONARD NIMOY A lot of my research time is spent daydreaming - telling an imaginary admiring audience of laymen ho... LEONARD SUSSKIND It was a great feeling to be named an All-Star starter, to know that my hard work is paying off and ... KAWHI LEONARD Well, first of all the Dominion Bureau of Statistics made a survey in the spring of 1970, which show... LEONARD WOODCOCK If tomorrow all of America were to become paternalistic, we would beat the Japanese every day of the... LEONARD LAUDER It seems hopelessly improbable that any particular rules accidentally led to the miracle of intellig... LEONARD SUSSKIND 'Subliminal' is about how we misinterpret our behavior because we're unaware of what our... LEONARD MLODINOW Boston was a great city to grow up in, and it probably still is. We were surrounded by two very impo... LEONARD NIMOY Our success in this matter is important to all Americans. Whether you are in the forest land busines... LEONARD BOSWELL