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  • Alfred A. Montapert In life, the first thing you must do is decide what you really want. Weigh the costs and the results. Are the results worthy of the costs? Then make up your mind completely and go after your goal with all your might.
    Alfred A. Montapert
    American writer
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  • Abdolkarim Soroush In many of the things that people do, they themselves are the centre of attention, but they inscribe some other name on their banner.
    Abdolkarim Soroush
    Iranian Islamic thinker and reformer (1945 - )
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  • Barry Marshall In medical school, it's quite possible to get taught that you can diagnose everybody and treat everything. But then you get out in the real world and find that for most patients walking through your door, you have no idea what's causing their symptoms.
    Barry Marshall
    Australian physician, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology (1951 - )
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  • Patricia Neal In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.
    Patricia Neal
    American actress (1926 - 2010)
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  • George Orwell In moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy but always against one's own body.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Carlos Ghosn In most companies people make a specific contribution to the company in their function. But it is not expressed in terms of profit, only in terms of performing their function better.
    Carlos Ghosn
    Brazilian-born businessman (1954 - )
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  • Bradley Denton In most Life Situations, the truth is irrelevant. Once in a great while, however, it's the only thing you've got.
    Buddy Holly is Alive and Well on Ganymede (1991)
    Bradley Denton
    American science fiction author (1958 - )
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  • Boris Spassky In my country, at that time, being a champion of chess was like being a King. At that time I was a King - and when you are King you feel a lot of responsibility, but there is nobody there to help you.
    Boris Spassky
    Russian chess grandmaster (1937 - )
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  • Barry White In my day, we didn't have the cocaine, so we went out and knocked somebody over the head and took the money. But today, all this cocaine and crack, it doesn't give kids a chance.
    Barry White
    American singer-songwriter, record producer and composer (1944 - 2003)
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  • Alvin Adams In my experience, problems most frequently arise from those who report for television, with little field experience in your area but an insatiable appetite for a sound bite.
    Alvin Adams
    American businessman (1804 - 1877)
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  • Lord Chesterfield In my mind, there is no, thing so illiberal and so ill-bred as audible laughter.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Ben Carson In my own personal life, God plays a great role in the risk, because I pray before I go into the operating room for every case, and I ask him to give me wisdom, to help me to know what to do - and not only for operating, but for everything.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Barbara Lynn In my relationship with a young guy I was going with in a band - his name was Sylvester, and I think he had another little girl on the side - I told him, 'If you lose me, you're going to lose a good thing.' And I went home and put that poem to music.
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  • William Shakespeare In my stars I am above thee, but be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness ;thrust upon em.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Bahman Ghobadi In my view, the adults are the burnt generation of Iraq for whom nothing can be done. But for the children, we can worry now, we can talk about them, we can plan for them, we can get our protest heard by others.
    Bahman Ghobadi
    Iranian-Kurdish film director, producer and writer (1969 - )
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  • Bono In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Brad Feld In my world, historical revenue is the least interesting thing to consider in an acquisition strategy. The goal is to acquire technology that is on your product roadmap or people that fit culturally within your organization and help you execute on your roadmap faster.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • William Shakespeare In nature there's no blemish but the mind; none can be call'd deform'd but the unkind.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Bebe Neuwirth In New York I was always offered the hot, sexy roles. But in L.A. I was offered the plain, dowdy roles. It says a lot about the difference between the coasts.
    Bebe Neuwirth
    American actress, singer and dancer (1958 - )
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