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It is said that great leaders are born, not made. The saying is true to this degree, that no man can persuade people to do what he wants them to do, unless he genuinely likes people, and believes that what he wants them to do is to their own advantage.
The Man Nobody Knows (1924) Ch. 4 : His Method -
It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity.
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It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain from the bounty of nature what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of art.
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It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.
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It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in excess.
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It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality.
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It is too great comfort which turns a man against himself. Life is most readily renounced at the time and among the classes where it is least harsh.
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It just tickles me still when you see Roger Clemens, as great as he is, throw a split-finger and the hitter just swings and misses. They don't see that ball that well. Jack Morris threw an awful good one and Mike Scott. There's a lot of great pitchers over the years that I think that pitch definitely helped their career.
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It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.
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It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.
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It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.
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It seems to me what is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all hypotheses that are served up to us and at the same time a great openness to new ideas... If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you... On the other hand, if you are open to the point of gullibility and have not an ounce of skeptical sense in you, then you cannot distinguish the useful ideas from the worthless ones.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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It takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning.
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It takes a lot of experience of life to see why some relationships last and others do not. But we do not have to wait for a crisis to get an idea of the future of a particular relationship. Our behavior in little every incidents tells us a great deal.
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It takes great cleverness to be able to conceal one's cleverness.
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It takes great personal courage to let yourself appear weak.
Grap zonder einde (1996) -
It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.
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It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.
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