Quotes 1021 till 1040 of 3204.
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I have tried to make all my acts and commercial moves the result of definite consideration and sound judgment. There were never any great ventures or risks. I practiced honest, slow-growing business methods, and tried to back them with energy and good system.
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I have two rules for a great book: make me think and make me smile.
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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.
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I haven't changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, perhaps.
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I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a great national source.
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I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the Promised Land.
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I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books, eventually I would write something worthy of publication. I understood I might be in my forties or my fifties or even my sixties, but I felt confident that it would happen.
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I knew the Apple II was great when I bought it, but as I dug into the details it just completely blew me away the creative artistic approach that the designers had taken.
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I know of no great man except those who have rendered great services to the human race.
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I learned that a great leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do and like it.
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I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.
Up From Slavery (1901) -
I like looking nice, but I always put comfort over fashion. I don't find thin girls attractive; be happy and healthy. I've never had a problem with the way I look. I'd rather have lunch with my friends than go to a gym.
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I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven.
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I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
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I lived through a classic publishing story. My editor was fired a month before the book came out. The editor who took it over already had a full plate. It was never advertised. We didn't get reviewed in any major outlets.
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I love opposition that has convictions.
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I must in the face of a storm, think, live and die as a king.
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I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.
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I never was on the dull, tame shore,
But I loved the great sea more and more.The Sea, reported in Bartletts Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.
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