Quotes 2561 till 2580 of 10005.
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Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.
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Good writing of course requires talent, and no one can teach you to have talent.
Source: (2010) -
Good. There are many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
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Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.
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Google's founders have had a good eye for imagining what technologies will be significant in the near future. No one asked Google to develop self-driving cars, but it helped them with street views for Google Maps.
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Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
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Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In other words, people are better than institutions.
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Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.
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Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
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Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
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Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.
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Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it.
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Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.
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Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.
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Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance.
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Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.
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Great things alone can make a great mind, and petty things will make a petty mind unless a man rejects them as completely alien.
Source: On War (1832) -
Great things in business are never done by one person. They're done by a team of people.
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