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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
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There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.
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There is only one god, and his name is Death. And there is only one thing we say to Death: "Not today."
A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 1: A Game of Thrones (1996) -
There is only one way to succeed in anything and that is to give everything. I do and I demand that my players do. Any man's finest hour is when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle... victorious.
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There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.
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There is plenty of room at the top. There's just not enough room to sit down.
Over the Top: Moving from Survival to Stability, from Stability to Success, from Success to Significance -
There is rarely a creative man who does not have to pay a high price for the divine spark of his great gifts... the human element is frequently bled for the benefit of the creative element.
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There is scarcely a man who is not conscious of the benefits which his own mind has received from the performance of single acts of benevolence. How strange that so few of us try a course of the same medicine!
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There is some help for all the defects of fortune; for, if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes, he may have his remedy by cutting of them shorter.
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There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.
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There is this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means; draw it all out, and hold him to it.
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There is, indeed, no single quality of the cat that man could not emulate to his advantage.
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There is, of course, a gold mine or a buried treasure on every mortgaged homestead. Whether the farmer ever digs for it or not, it is there, haunting his daydreams when the burden of debt is most unbearable.
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There it is: it doesn't make any difference who we are or what we are, there's always somebody to look down on! somebody to hold in light esteem, somebody to be indifferent about.
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There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
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There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from the equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and manage a smile.
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There once was a brainy baboon who always breathed down a bassoon for he said, ''It appears that in billions of years I shall certainly hit on a tune.''
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There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
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There was a time when I was enamored of the Clintons. I knocked on doors, phone-banked and rallied during his campaign.
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There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.
St. Francis de Sales
Bishop of Geneva and is honored as a saint in the Catholic Church (1567 - 1622)
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