Quotes 121 till 140 of 6179.
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Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn't have what it takes." They will say, "Women don't have what it takes."
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Before buying anything, it is well to ask if one could do without it.
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Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.
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Being dead is one way to experience nothing, another is to attend some classes at my school.
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Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful, that's what matters to me.
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Between the famous and the infamous there is but one step.
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Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime, and too sleepy to worry at night.
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Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and a timid one would not be entertained by, which even make us dangerous to existing institution - such call I good books.
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Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.
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But that's one of the nice things about doing a stage show, if something doesn't work out, you have the luxury of working on it over time.
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Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
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Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.
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Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.
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Climate change, demographics, water, food, energy, global health, women's empowerment - these issues are all intertwined. We cannot look at one strand in isolation. Instead, we must examine how these strands are woven together.
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Commerce is one of the daughters of Fortune, inconsistent and deceitful as her mother. she chooses her residence where she is least expected, and shifts her home when in appearance she seems firmly settled.
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Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.
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Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.
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Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.
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Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten.
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