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  • I feel like I almost didn't grow up in the business, because my parents worked so hard at sheltering us from that. I was raised in Connecticut. And I honestly wasn't aware that my dad was a celebrity until I moved to Los Angeles a year ago.
  • In short, it may be said that on paper the obligations to settle international disputes peacefully are now so comprehensive and far-reaching that it is almost impossible for a state to resort to war without violating one or more solemn treaty obligations.
  • As a boy, I was deeply interested in scientific ideas, electrical and mechanical, and I read almost everything I could find on the subject. I was attracted more by the hardware and construction aspects than by the scientific issues.
  • The discovery of poverty at the beginning of the 1960s was something like the discovery of America almost 500 years earlier. In the case of these exotic terrains, plenty of people were on the site before the discoverers ever arrived.
  • The Rio de Contas, a wide, almost delta-like river, was startling, a sudden big sky and a feeling of openness, and very bright. It was noisy with birds. The rain forest houses most of the earth's plant and animal population. I hadn't anticipated it would be so loud.
  • This Olympics is almost a little sad. It is my final Olympics. There are a lot of good memories.
  • My work is being destroyed almost as soon as it is printed. One day it is being read; the next day someone's wrapping fish in it.
  • I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an opera.
  • I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate.
  • At Sir-Tech I went through the ranks, almost like an apprenticeship. I was very fortunate. The industry was smaller then, and I was able to work alongside some amazing game designers.
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  • Robert Frost Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Lawana Blackwell Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.
    Lawana Blackwell
    English writer
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  • George Lois Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by orginality, overcomes everything.
    George Lois
     
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  • Brian Tracy Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.
    Brian Tracy
    Canadian-American motivational public speaker and self-development aut (1944 - )
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  • Samuel Smiles ''Where there is a will there is a way.'' is an old true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very resolution often scales the barriers to it, and secures its achievement. To think we are able, is almost to be so - to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • Aristotle Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Douglas Adams Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Salman Rushdie After a long, hopeless war, people will settle for peace, at almost any price.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Mary Decker Slaney I was born to be a runner. I simply love to run. It's almost like the faster I go, the easier it becomes.
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright I wouldn't mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking.
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Harold S. Geneen It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.
    Harold S. Geneen
    American Accountant, Industrialist, CEO, ITT (1910 - 1997)
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  • Carol Moseley Braun It's hard to be the first. It's almost as if I'm subject to a different level of inspection.
    Carol Moseley Braun
    American diplomat, politician, and lawyer (1947 - )
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  • Brendan Francis People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us to see our own way more clearly.
    Brendan Francis
    Irish poet and writer (1923 - 1964)
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  • George Orwell Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Henry David Thoreau To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task the reader more than any other exercise which the customs of the day esteem. It requires a training such as the athletes underwent, the steady intention almost of the whole life to this object.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Eleanor Roosevelt
    My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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