Quotes with phrase-making

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  • Reggie Jackson The greatest manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are.
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  • Elbert Hubbard The greatest mistake a man can make is to be afraid of making one.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, ''Let no one be called happy till his death;'' to which I would add, ''Let no one, till his death be called unhappy.''
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • Albert Bushnell Hart The growth of constitutional government, as we now understand it, was promoted by the establishment of two different sets of machinery for making laws and carrying on government.
    Albert Bushnell Hart
    American historian, writer, and editor (1854 - 1943)
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  • Carmen Agra Deedy The hardest part is making the time to write. Not finding the time to write, mind you. Making.
    Carmen Agra Deedy
    American author of children’s literature
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  • Thomas Carlyle The hell of these days is the fear of not getting along, especially of not making money.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Lillian Smith The human heart dares not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making.
    Lillian Smith
    American writer (1897 - 1966)
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  • A. Harvey Block The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original. They are rarely useful. The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.
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  • Anne Sullivan Macy The immediate future is going to be tragic for all of us unless we find a way of making the vast educational resources of this country serve the true purpose of education, truth and justice.
    Anne Sullivan Macy
    American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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  • Burnie Burns The initial plan for Rooster Teeth is really different from the initial plan for the group, because we started as a group that was making one show: 'Red vs. Blue.'
    Burnie Burns
    American writer, actor, producer and director (1973 - )
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  • Candace Bushnell The key to life is your attitude. Whether you're single or married or have kids or don't have kids, it's how you look at your life, what you make of it. It's about making the best of your life wherever you are in life.
    Candace Bushnell
    American author and journalist (1958 - )
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  • Raymond Chandler The making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating adventure. It is not; it is an endless contention of tawdry egos, some of them powerful, almost all of them vociferous, and almost none of them capable of anything much more creative than credit-stealing and self-promotion.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • James Baldwin The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Horace The man is either mad, or he is making verses.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Cardinal de Retz The man who can own up to his error is greater than he who merely knows how to avoid making it.
    Cardinal de Retz
    French churchman and writer of memoirs (1613 - 1679)
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  • Cyril Northcote Parkinson The man who is denied the opportunity of making decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to make.
    Cyril Northcote Parkinson
    British naval historian (1909 - 1993)
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  • B. C. Forbes The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
    B. C. Forbes
    American Publisher (1880 - 1954)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • George Santayana The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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