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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.
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Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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Successful research attracts the bigger grant which makes further research impossible.
Source: Parkinsons Laws in Medical Research, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, November 1962 -
Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically.
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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.
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Sudden glory is the passion which makes those grimaces called laughter.
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Suffer not thy wrongs to shroud thy fate, But turn, my soul, to blessings which remain.
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Superior knowledge is a mistake; that which rules the world is superior ignorance.
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Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
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Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.
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Surely life, if it be not long, is tedious, since we are forced to call in the assistance of so many trifles to rid us of our time, of that time which never can return.
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Surely no one will consider us lacking in reverence if we say that every one of the principles of modern salesmanship on which business men so much pride themselves, are brilliantly exemplified in Jesus' talk and work.
Source: The Man Nobody Knows (1924) Ch. 4 : His Method -
Surely there must be some way to find a husband or, for that matter, merely an escort, without sacrificing one's privacy, self-respect, and interior decorating scheme. For example, men could be imported from the developing countries, many parts of which are suffering from a man excess, at least in relation to local food supply.
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Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.
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Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium.
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Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
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Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths.
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Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent. I therefore show you only the best works; and when you are grounded in these, you will have a standard for the rest, which you will know how to value, without overrating them.
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Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all the other qualities. It is the nec plus ultra of the intelligence. Through this alone is genius the supreme health and balance of all the faculties.
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Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.
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