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Sticks and stones are hard on bones aimed with angry art. Words can sting like anything but silence breaks the heart.
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Stockholm is unique in that it's built on islands and surrounded by water, so you get this enormous sense of freedom. It's got everything you could possibly need - everything New York or London has but without all the people and traffic. It's also become a very creative city, not only for music but also for fashion and computer games.
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Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.
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Storms and darkness scared me, but somehow it encouraged me to learn about nature and I think nothing's dark, dark is beautiful too.
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Strictly speaking, there is but one real evil: I mean acute pain. All other complaints are so considerably diminished by time that it is plain the grief is owing to our passion, since the sensation of it vanishes when that is over.
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Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!
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Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.
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Stupidity knows no bounds and certainly no city limits, but by and large, 99 percent of the people who come to Melvins shows seem to be relatively well behaved... I'm happy and relieved by this.
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Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
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Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.
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Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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Success is not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.
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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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Success, after all, loves a witness, but failure can't exist without one.
Source: Het korte maar wonderbaarlijke leven van Oscar Wao (2008) 136 -
Success... seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
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Successful men usually snatch success from seeming failure. If they know there is such a word as defeat they will not admit it. They may be whipped, but they are not aware of it. That is why they succeed.
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Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.
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Such indeed is the superior longevity of the fair females of Surinam, compared to that of the males (owing chiefly, as I said, to their excesses of all sorts) that I have frequently known wives who have buried four husbands, but never met a man in this country who had survived two wives.
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