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Winston Churchill: Difficulties mastered are...

Winston Churchill: Difficulties mastered are...

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Winston Churchill: It is hard,...

Winston Churchill: It is hard,...

It is hard, if not impossible, to snub a beautiful woman -- they remain beautiful and the snub...

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Winston Churchill: Although present on...

Winston Churchill: Although present on...

Although present on the occasion, I have no clear recollection of the events leading up to...

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Robertson Davies: There are times...

Robertson Davies: There are times...

There are times when I think that the reading that I have done in the past has had no effect except to cloud my mind...

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Pearl Buck: No one really...

Pearl Buck: No one really...

No one really understood music unless he was a scientist, her father had declared, and not just a scientist, either,...

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Pearl Buck: The young do...

Pearl Buck: The young do...

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible-and achieve it, generation after...

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Elizabeth Bowen: Fate is not...

Elizabeth Bowen: Fate is not...

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

Source: The House in Paris, 1936
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Ralph Ellison: The end is...

Ralph Ellison: The end is...

The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.

Source: Invisible Man, 1952
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Alvin Toffler: One of the...

Alvin Toffler: One of the...

One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new...

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Honore de Balzac: No man should...

Honore de Balzac: No man should...

No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.

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Honore de Balzac: The majority of...

Honore de Balzac: The majority of...

The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutang trying to play the violin.

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Natalie Clifford Barney: Most virtue is...

Natalie Clifford Barney: Most virtue is...

Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Source: Quoted in: My Country 'tis...

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Natalie Clifford Barney: Renouncement: the heroism...

Natalie Clifford Barney: Renouncement: the heroism...

Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.

Source: Quoted in: Gods, in Adam, no. 299...

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Honore de Balzac: Power is not...

Honore de Balzac: Power is not...

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.

Source: In...

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Mark Twain: Are you going...

Mark Twain: Are you going...

Are you going to hang him anyhow - and try him afterward?

Source: Innocents at...

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Mark Twain: Annihilation has no...

Mark Twain: Annihilation has no...

Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born -- a hundred million years --...

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Mark Twain: Eternal rest sounds...

Mark Twain: Eternal rest sounds...

Eternal rest sounds comforting in the pulpit; well, you try it once, and see how heavy time will hang on your...

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Mark Twain: Fame is a...

Mark Twain: Fame is a...

Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

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Mark Twain: History is strewn...

Mark Twain: History is strewn...

History is strewn thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill, but a lie, well told, is...

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Mark Twain: I am a...

Mark Twain: I am a...

I am a democrat only on principle, not by instinct -- nobody is that. Doubtless some people say they are, but this...

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