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  • Buzz Osborne 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.
    Buzz Osborne
    American guitarist, vocalist and songwriter (1964 - )
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  • Lord Chesterfield Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and vulgar, they will appear to as much disadvantage, and be as ill received, as your person, though ever so well-proportioned, would if dressed in rags, dirt, and tatters.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Denis Waitley Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Jim Rohn Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • John Wooden Success is peace of mind, a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming, and not just in a physical way: seek ye first the kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be yours as well.
    John Wooden
    American basketball player and head coach (1910 - 2010)
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  • Alexander Hamilton Such a wife as I want... must be young, handsome I lay most stress upon a good shape, sensible a little learning will do, well-bread, chaste, and tender. As to religion, a moderate stock will satisfy me. She must believe in God and hate a saint.
    Alexander Hamilton
    American statesman (1757 - 1804)
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  • Carl Hiaasen Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn't write them as well; I wouldn't do as good a job.
    Carl Hiaasen
    American writer, author and journalist (1953 - )
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  • Bill Skarsgard Sweden is a small country and, well, our family's pretty prominent in that world, I guess. And I really didn't like the sound of just being 'the fourth acting Skarsgard.'
    Bill Skarsgard
    Swedish actor (1990 - )
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  • George Eliot Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Sympathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Barry Lam Taiwan has been so well developed economically. But we are underdeveloped culturally.
    Barry Lam
    Taiwanese billionaire businessman (1949 - )
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  • Amy Lowell Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils.
    Amy Lowell
    American poet, criticus (1874 - 1925)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Bernard M. Baruch Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Take the utmost care to get well born and well brought up.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Uta Hagen Talent is an amalgam of high sensitivity; easy vulnerability; high sensory equipment (seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting - intensely); a vivid imagination as well as a grip on reality; the desire to communicate one's own experience and sensations, to make one's self heard and seen.
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  • Sir Matthew Hale Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.
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  • Ben Jonson Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
    The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Alfred Hitchcock Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
    Alfred Hitchcock
    English moviedirector (1899 - 1980)
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  • Edsger Wybe Dijkstra Thank goodness we don't have only serious problems, but ridiculous ones as well.
    Selected Writings on Computing (1982) p. 101
    Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
    Dutch mathematician and computer scientist (1930 - 2002)
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