Quotes with sure-thing

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  • Lillian Smith Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years.
    Lillian Smith
    American writer (1897 - 1966)
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  • Warren Bennis Managers are people who do things right; leaders are people who do the right thing.
    Warren Bennis
    American scholar, organizational consultant and author (1925 - 2014)
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  • Mark Twain Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Alexander Pope Many people are capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Bob Weinstein Many people have vied to become the third Weinstein brother, and I'm not sure why, but that distinction only goes to one person - Quentin Tarantino.
    Bob Weinstein
    American film producer (1954 - )
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  • Bertrand Russell Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Adolf Galland Many pilots of the time were the opinion that a fighter pilot in a closed cockpit was an impossible thing, because you should smell the enemy. You could smell them because of the oil they were burning.
    Adolf Galland
    German Luftwaffe general (1912 - 1996)
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  • William Somerset Maugham Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Benjamin Tucker Marx, as we have seen, solved it by declaring capital to be a different thing from product, and maintaining that it belonged to society and should be seized by society and employed for the benefit of all alike.
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Bjork Maybe it's just a personal thing, but I get so much grounding from Iceland because I know it's always going to be there. I have a very happy, healthy relationship with the country, so it's really easy to go everywhere because I always have Iceland to go back to.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Brendan Fraser Maybe my caveman ancestors invented the wheel or something. I'm not sure.
    Brendan Fraser
    American and Canadian actor (1969 - )
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  • Philip Roth Maybe the best thing would be to forget being right or wrong about people and just go along for the ride. But if you can do that -- well, lucky you.
    Source: American Pastoral (1997)
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Don DeLillo Maybe when we die, the first thing we'll say is 'I know this feeling. I was here before'.
    Source: White Noise (2015) 126
    Don DeLillo
    American Author (1936 - )
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  • Bob Marley Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all.
    Source: As quoted in "Bob Marley: Musician" (Infobase Publishing, 2009) by Sherry Paprocki and Sean Dolan, p. 75
    Bob Marley
    Jamaican singer-songwriter (1945 - 1981)
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  • Bernie S. Siegel Medicine is a very tough thing. I mean, everyone is going to die. Sooner or later. That's a tough thing to face.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
    Source: Animal Dreams
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Paul Auster Memory is the space in which a thing happens for a second time.
    Paul Auster
    American writer and film (1947 - )
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  • Alexander Chase Memory is the thing you forget with.
    Alexander Chase
    American journalist and editor (1926 - )
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  • Kazuo Ishiguro Memory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing; often it is heavily coloured by the circumstances in which one remembers.
    Source: A Pale View of Hills (1982)
    Kazuo Ishiguro
    English novelist and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later, for another thing, they die earlier.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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