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A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.
― Austin O'Malley
American writer, ophthalmologist and a professor of English literatur (1858 - 1932) -
A human being is only interesting if he's in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it. You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
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A hundredth of a second here, a hundredth of a second there - even if you put them end to end, they still only add up to one, two, perhaps three seconds, snatched from eternity.
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A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your girdle when your hips stick.
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A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go.
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A journalist is basically a chronicler, not an interpreter of events. Where else in society do you have the license to eavesdrop on so many different conversations as you have in journalism? Where else can you delve into the life of our times?
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A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
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A kiss is but a kiss now! and no wave of a great flood that whirls me to the sea. But, as you will! we'll sit contentedly, and eat our pot of honey on the grave.
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A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.
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A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of ''spirit'' over matter.
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A large part of the problem, is that young people are being born into the world and growing up without much hope. And so, they become murderers, they become suicide bombers.
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A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself.
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A leader's most important decisions are about people. Who do you put in which jobs? How long do you leave them in a job?
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A liberal: someone who thinks he knows more about your experience than you do.
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A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.
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A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it's starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker.
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A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
Source: Letter to John Adams (1 May 1780) -
A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug.
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A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.
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A lot of musicians don't learn the business. You just have to be well-rounded in both areas. You have to understand publishing. You have to understand how you make money, what's in demand, what helps you make the most out of your talent.
Source: On running a label
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