Quotes 4141 till 4160 of 4330.
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Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.
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Working for a federal agency was like trying to dislodge a prune skin from the roof of the mouth. More enterprise went into the job than could be justified by the results.
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Would it be possible to stand still on one spot more majestically - while simulating a triumphant march forward - than it is done by the two English Houses of Parliament?
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Write on your doors the saying wise and old. ''Be bold!'' and everywhere - ''Be bold; Be not too bold!'' Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.
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Writing is more than anything a compulsion, like some people wash their hands thirty times a day for fear of awful consequences if they do not. It pays a whole lot better than this type of compulsion, but it is no more heroic.
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Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.
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Yes, more than 100 Democrats voted to authorize Bush to take the nation to war. Most of them did so in the belief that the president and his administration were truthful in their statements that Saddam Hussein was a gathering menace.
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Yes, sometimes I think that all my writing is nothing more than the compensatory work of a frustrated painter.
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You are more likely to act yourself into feelings, than feel yourself into action.
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You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when you give money merely in charity.
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You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.
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You are not, nor ever will be, better than anyone else besides the person you are now.
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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.
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You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
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You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.
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You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
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You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
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You can learn a lot from people who view the world differently than you do.
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You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York.
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