Quotes 401 till 420 of 655.
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
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Something was dead in each of us, and what was dead was hope.
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Starvation, and not sin, is the parent of modern crime.
The Soul of Man under Socialism (1891) -
Stephen Sondheim told me that Oscar Hammerstein believed everything that he wrote. So there's great truth in the songs, and that's what was so wonderful to find.
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Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
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Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you will find the real tinsel underneath.
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Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.
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Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.
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Suppose it were perfectly certain that the life and fortune of each of us would some day depend upon our winning or losing a game of chess. Do you not think that we should all consider it to be our primary duty to learn at least the names of the pieces and how to position them on the chessboard?
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Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain.
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Talk to a woman as if you loved her, and to a man as if he bored you.
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Talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact.
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Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.
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That is the reason they are so pleased to find out other people's secrets. It distracts public attention from their own.
An Ideal Husband -
The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.
The picture of Dorian Gray (1891) -
The American father is never seen in London. He passes his life entirely in Wall Street and communicates with his family once a month by means of a telegram in cipher.
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The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public.
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The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you're going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life.
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