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  • Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.
  • There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual.
  • Criticism of others is futile and if you indulge in it often you should be warned that it can be fatal to your career.
  • The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.
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  • Henry van Dyke Individualsm is a fatal poison. But individuality is the salt of common life.
    Henry van Dyke
    American Protestant Clergyman and Writer (1852 - 1933)
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  • Baltasar Gracian All victories breed hate, and that over your superior is foolish or fatal.
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. The greatest misfortune that ever befell man was the invention of printing.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Dale Carnegie Criticism of others is futile and if you indulge in it often you should be warned that it can be fatal to your career.
    Dale Carnegie
    American writer and lecturer (1888 - 1955)
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  • John Wooden Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.
    John Wooden
    American basketball player and head coach (1910 - 2010)
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  • Oscar Wilde For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sittings, and the other gets no dinners.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Camille Desmoulins I am thirty-three - the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.
    Camille Desmoulins
     
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  • Margaret Halsey I doused the fatal instrument with lightning promptitude, but it was a good seven minutes before the last indignant handkerchief had folded its wings and gone back to its reticule and the last manufactured cough died protestingly away.
    Margaret Halsey
    American writer
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  • August Strindberg I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.
    August Strindberg
    Swedish writer (1849 - 1912)
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  • E. M. Forster Ideas are fatal to caste.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler In film or on stage, in reflecting life through art, an actor has a second take or another day with his or her performance if something goes wrong. Bullfighters are spies crossing into enemy lines. Any mistake, no matter how minor or trivial, is potentially fatal.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Will Durant Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
    Will Durant
    American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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  • Will Durant Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
    Will Durant
    American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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  • Coleman Dowell It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid. Even the stain on the coffee cup seems not coffee but the physical manifestation of one's inner stain, the fatal blot that from the beginning had marked one for ultimate aloneness.
    Coleman Dowell
     
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  • Douglas Macarthur It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
    Douglas Macarthur
    American general in WO II (1880 - 1964)
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  • Benjamin Jowett It is most important in this world to be pushing, but it is fatal to seem so.
    Benjamin Jowett
    British theologian (1817 - 1893)
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  • Stirling Moss It is necessary to relax your muscles when you can. Relaxing your brain is fatal.
    Stirling Moss
     
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Life and language are alike sacred. Homicide and verbicide - that is, violent treatment of a word with fatal results to its legitimate meaning, which is its life - are alike forbidden.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Napoleon Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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