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The sad truth...

The sad truth...

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Source: The Feminine Eye,...

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In suggesting gifts:...

In suggesting gifts:...

In suggesting gifts: Money is appropriate, and one size fits all.

Source: In...

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The paradox of...

The paradox of...

The paradox of education is precisely this -- that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society...

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Business is other...

Business is other...

Business is other people's money.

Source: Marguerite, I 8 52.
-- Delphine de...

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A high heart...

A high heart...

A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in...

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Drink, and dance...

Drink, and dance...

Drink, and dance and laugh and lie,
Love the reeling midnight through,
For tomorrow we shall die!
(But,...

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It's in the...

It's in the...

It's in the preparation -- in those dreary pedestrian virtues they taught you in seventh grade and you didn't believe....

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I always introduce...

I always introduce...

I always introduce myself as an encyclopedia of defects which I do not deny. Why should I? It took me a whole life...

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If you have...

If you have...

If you have enough fantasies, you're ready, in the event that something happens.

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Imagination has always...

Imagination has always...

Imagination has always had powers of resurrection that no science can match.

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Any critic is...

Any critic is...

Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of...

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The CEO era...

The CEO era...

The CEO era gave rise to the CFO (not certified flying object, as you might imagine, but chief financial officer) and,...

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In the next...

In the next...

In the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which get the first plastic worm out of the artificial...

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Frankly, these days,...

Frankly, these days,...

Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see painting.

Source:...

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A pessimist is...

A pessimist is...

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.

Source: quoted...

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Literature, the most...

Literature, the most...

Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.

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Criticism is the...

Criticism is the...

Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value.

Source: In Webster's...

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A society made...

A society made...

A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be...

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Giving every man...

Giving every man...

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them...

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In the old...

In the old...

In the old days one merely gawked at these unfortunates. Donahue's genius is to get them to...

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