Quotes with tragedy-in-the-making

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  • Camille Pissarro Don't be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes.
    Camille Pissarro
    Danish-French Impressionist painter (1830 - 1903)
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  • Robert A. Heinlein Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.
    Robert A. Heinlein
    American science fiction writer (1907 - 1988)
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  • Pierre de Beaumarchais Drinking, when we are not thirsty and making love all year round, madam; that is all there is to distinguish us from other animals.
    Pierre de Beaumarchais
    French playwright (1732 - 1799)
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  • Mark Twain Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty -the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Camille Paglia Earisome as it may seem, women must realize that, in making a commitment to a man, they have merged in his unconscious with his mother and have therefore inherited the ambivalence of that relationship.
    Vamps and Tramps (1994)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • G.W.F. Hegel Education is the art of making man ethical.
    G.W.F. Hegel
    German philosopher (1770 - 1831)
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  • Anne Campbell Elections are also about the future - the pledges that we are making for this country. For those who care about equality and fairness in the UK, and beyond, Labour really is the only choice.
    Anne Campbell
    English politician (1940 - )
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  • Mason Cooley Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
    Mason Cooley
    American aphorist
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  • James Baldwin Europe has what we [Americans] do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life's possibilities.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Louis Ferdinand Céline Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren't so many of them left. Think it over... no more syphilis, no more clap, no more typhoid... antibiotics have taken half the tragedy out of medicine.
    Louis Ferdinand Céline
    French writer (1894 - 1961)
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  • Bradley A. Smith Even leaving aside government policy, whole industries are already making expensive changes around the perceived need to 'go green.' Al Gore and countless other prophets of global catastrophe are making megamillions pushing these expensive solutions. Schoolchildren around the globe are being frightened by tales of impending calamity.
    Bradley A. Smith
    American law professor (1958 - )
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  • Bennie Thompson Even President Bush has cited the need to outlaw the practice of corporations making loans to their officers. Strangely enough, when the President was a corporate officer, he took out several loans from the company.
    Bennie Thompson
    American politician (1948 - )
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  • Vincent Van Gogh Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.
    Vincent Van Gogh
    Dutch painter (1853 - 1890)
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  • Adrian Lyne Every time I do one I feel like I've never really quite learned anything. I always find that when I'm making a film, I find it a little bit like I'm doing it for the first time.
    Adrian Lyne
    English film director, writer and producer (1941 - )
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  • Barry Schwartz Everybody makes money for a living, but most of us actually do something that has a point, in addition to just making money. We examine and treat patients, we teach students, we draw up contracts and wills, we write for newspapers, magazines, and web sites, we clean floors, or we serve meals.
    Barry Schwartz
    American psychologist (1946 - )
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  • Elizabeth Taylor Everything makes me nervous - except making films.
    Elizabeth Taylor
    British-American actress, businesswoman, and humanitarian (1932 - 2011)
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  • Tony Dorsett Everything starts with yourself - with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with your life. I tell kids that it's a cruel world, and that the world will bend them either left or right, and it's up to them to decide which way to bend.
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  • Jean Baudrillard Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Rick Pitino Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.
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  • T. Boone Pickens Far too many executives have become more concerned with the ''four P's'' - pay, perks, power and prestige - rather than making profits for shareholders.
    T. Boone Pickens
    American business magnate and financier (1928 - )
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