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Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.
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Some managements do not even think of buybacks as an option. The idea of shrinking their equity base repels them. Their inclination instead is to get bigger, and this often leads them to pay rich prices for acquisitions that never earn their keep.
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Sometimes when I write lyrics there are images in them, usually on a quite simplistic level, like colors. But most often music comes first and then later I sit down with visual people and we chat about what we want to do. I don't look at myself as a visual artist. I make music.
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Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg; and when it takes to cackling will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.
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Stress on fast growing companies comes from a lot of different places. The one that is often the largest, and creates the most second-order issues, is the composition of the leadership team. More specifically, it's specific people on the leadership who don't have the scale experience their role requires at a particular moment in time.
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Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
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Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy.
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Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.
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Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.
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Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.
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Such is the human race. Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
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Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced and the inconvenience is often considerable.
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Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths.
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Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.
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Taste is often one of the aspects of fashion.
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Television broadcasts have, in the main, been more suggestive, less specific, more distant in their images than the print press: often you knew that lump was a dead body only because a chattering reporter told you it was.
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Tell him to be a fool every so often
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Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
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