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George Bernard Shaw: Newspapers are unable,...

George Bernard Shaw: Newspapers are unable,...

Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of...

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Anita Roddick: I hope to...

Anita Roddick: I hope to...

I hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social wrongs.

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Stephen R Covey: Motivation is a...

Stephen R Covey: Motivation is a...

Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very...

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Tom Peters: All business success...

Tom Peters: All business success...

All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and...

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Al Capone: I have build...

Al Capone: I have build...

I have build my organization upon fear.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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George Chapman: We inherit nothing...

George Chapman: We inherit nothing...

We inherit nothing truly, but what our actions make us worthy of.

Source: In...

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J B Priestley: When I was...

J B Priestley: When I was...

When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now that I am old there is no respect for the old. I missed...

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William Congreve: Tis well enough...

William Congreve: Tis well enough...

Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a...

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Stanislaw Lec: In a war...

Stanislaw Lec: In a war...

In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.

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-- Stanislaw Lec, (Mar...

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Stanislaw Lec: When myth meets...

Stanislaw Lec: When myth meets...

When myth meets myth, the collision is very real.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Richard Bach: The more I...

Richard Bach: The more I...

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Source: Illusions:...

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Margaret Drabble: The human mind...

Margaret Drabble: The human mind...

The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom.

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Jane Rule: The real power...

Jane Rule: The real power...

The real power of books is their deep companionability. We learn from them as we learn from the deep companionability...

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Artemus Ward: It ain't so...

Artemus Ward: It ain't so...

It ain't so much what people don't know that hurts as what they know that ain't so.

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Nelson Algren: I went out...

Nelson Algren: I went out...

I went out there [Hollywood] for a thousand a week, and I worked Monday, and I got fired Wednesday. The guy that hired...

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Nelson Algren: The avocation of...

Nelson Algren: The avocation of...

The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back...

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Mary Stewart: It is harder...

Mary Stewart: It is harder...

It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny.

Source: The Last...

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Mary Stewart: But I have...

Mary Stewart: But I have...

But I have noticed this about ambitious men, or men in power -- they fear even the slightest and least likely threat...

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Shirley Jackson: [L]et my reader...

Shirley Jackson: [L]et my reader...

[L]et my reader who is puzzled by my awkward explanations close his eyes for no more than two minutes, and see if he...

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Judith Krantz: Billy thought privately...

Judith Krantz: Billy thought privately...

Billy thought privately that the rich are different only because people treat them as if they were. Sometimes she...

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