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  • Nido Qubein One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.
    Nido Qubein
    American businessman (1948 - )
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  • Josh Billings One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Ziad K. Abdelnour One of the hardest decisions you'll ever face in life is choosing whether to walk away or try harder.
    Source: Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
    Ziad K. Abdelnour
    American banker (1960 - )
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  • Sebastian Faulks One of the hardest things about being alive is being with other people.
    Source: Engleby (2007)
    Sebastian Faulks
    British novelist, journalist and broadcaster (1953 - )
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  • Carlo Ratti One of the ideas that was developed at MIT in a workshop was, imagine this pipe, and you've got valves, solenoid valves, taps, opening and closing. You create like a water curtain with pixels made of water. If those pixels fall, you can write on it: you can show patterns, images, text.
    Carlo Ratti
    Italian architect, engineer and activist
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • William Feather One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.
    William Feather
    American writer, businessman (1889 - 1981)
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  • Oliver Stone One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.
    Oliver Stone
    American writer and filmmaker (1946 - )
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  • Rita Mae Brown One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
    Rita Mae Brown
    American writer, activist, and feminist (1944 - )
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  • Will Durant One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
    Will Durant
    American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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  • Agatha Christie One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • Callie Khouri One of the magical things about Nashville is just how many incredibly talented people are here and the way they support each other.
    Callie Khouri
    American film and television (1957 - )
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  • Byron Howard One of the magical things about these anthropomorphic animal movies is that we can take things that are so common in our own world that we deal with, like the DMV, or moving to a new city, or our family, and show you a mirror image of those things, reflected in a whole new way. That's why animals are great.
    Byron Howard
    American film director and producer (1968 - )
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  • Ban Ki-moon One of the main lessons I have learned during my five years as Secretary-General is that broad partnerships are the key to solving broad challenges. When governments, the United Nations, businesses, philanthropies and civil society work hand-in-hand, we can achieve great things.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Brad Falchuk One of the main pitfalls of any theoretically 'niche' show is that you spend too much time on the 'niche' and not enough time on the 'show.'
    Brad Falchuk
    American television writer, director, and producer (1971 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Aldous Huxley One of the many reasons for the bewildering and tragic character of human existence is the fact that social organization is at once necessary and fatal. Men are forever creating such organizations for their own convenience and forever finding themselves the victims of their home-made monsters.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Dorothy Canfield Fisher One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.
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  • Eric Hoffer One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Ben E. King One of the members of the group, I can't remember which one, found out we were making $3 - $5,000 a night. We were getting a hundred dollars a week a piece. Everybody got upset about it.
    Ben E. King
    American soul and R&B singer (1938 - 2015)
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