Quotes with back-end

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  • James Baldwin Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Charles de Gaulle Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.
    Charles de Gaulle
    French statesman (1890 - 1970)
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  • Zig Ziglar Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
    Zig Ziglar
    American author, salesman, and motivational speaker. (1926 - 2012)
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  • Denis Waitley Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Billy Connolly Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.
    Billy Connolly
    Scottish stand-up comedian, musician, actor (1942 - )
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  • William Hazlitt Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Carlo Collodi Fancy the happiness of Pinocchio on finding himself free! Without saying yes or no, he fled from the city and set out on the road that was to take him back to the house of the lovely Fairy.
    Source: Pinocchio
    Carlo Collodi
    Italian author, humorist and journalist (1826 - 1890)
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  • Bell Hooks Feminist politics aims to end domination, to free us to be who we are - to live lives where we love justice, where we can live in peace.
    Source: Feminism Is for Everybody (2014)
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Blaise Pascal Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Bobby Hull First and foremost it's important that we're able to put something back in the game, which we have always done. We're doing this to help needy charities along with the police forces in different towns and cities.
    Bobby Hull
    Canadian ice hockey player (1939 - )
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  • Aaron Hill First, then, a woman will or won't, depend on 't;
    If she will do 't, she will; and there 's an end on 't.
    But if she won't, since safe and sound your trust is,
    Fear is affront, and jealousy injustice.
    Source: Zara (1735)
    Aaron Hill
    English dramatist and writer (1685 - 1750)
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  • Rohinton Mistry Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was time to call the whole thing off.
    Rohinton Mistry
    Indian-born Canadian writer (1952 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Butch Trucks For a long time, our only mode of travel was an Econoline van. Eleven of us, with nine sleeping in the back on two mattresses.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Barbara Demick For a North Korean watcher, seeing 'The Interview' is like seeing an earnest endeavor reflected back through a freak-show mirror.
    Barbara Demick
    American journalist
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  • Bjork For a person as obsessed with music as I am, I always hear a song in the back of my head, all the time, and that usually is my own tune. I've done that all my life.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Cass Sunstein For business, government, and education, the lesson is clear: People ought to be relying far more on objective information and far less on interviews. They might even want to think about scaling back or cancelling interviews altogether. They'll save a lot of time - and make better decisions.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • T. S. Eliot For every life and every act consequence of good and evil can be shown and as in time results of many deeds are blended so good and evil in the end become confounded.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Alice Walker For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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