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Pierre Corneille: Do your duty,...

Pierre Corneille: Do your duty,...

Do your duty, and leave the rest to heaven.

Source: Horace.
-- Pierre Corneille,...

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William Wycherley: I have been...

William Wycherley: I have been...

I have been toiling and moiling for the prettiest piece of china, my dear.

Source:...

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William Wycherley: Good fellowship and...

William Wycherley: Good fellowship and...

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Source:...

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David Mamet: The product of...

David Mamet: The product of...

The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We...

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David Mamet: The poker player...

David Mamet: The poker player...

The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that,...

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Howard Hughes: Wash four distinct...

Howard Hughes: Wash four distinct...

Wash four distinct and separate times, using lots of lather each time from individual bars of...

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Robert Collier: All through nature,...

Robert Collier: All through nature,...

All through nature, you will find the same law. First the need, then the means.

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Kenneth Blanchard: For a manager...

Kenneth Blanchard: For a manager...

For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact...

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George Herbert: There is great...

George Herbert: There is great...

There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Arthur Miller: The job is...

Arthur Miller: The job is...

The job is to ask questions -- it always was -- and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of...

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Jean Racine: It is no...

Jean Racine: It is no...

It is no longer a heat concealed in my blood, it is Venus herself grasping her prey. (Ce n'est plus une ardeur dans...

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John Ashbery: I like poems...

John Ashbery: I like poems...

I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.

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Vachel Lindsay: Life is a...

Vachel Lindsay: Life is a...

Life is a loom, weaving illusion.

Source: The Chinese Nightingale.
-- Vachel...

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Jean de la Fontaine: But the shortest...

Jean de la Fontaine: But the shortest...

But the shortest works are always the best.

Source: Fables, X, 'Les Lapins'.
--...

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Stevie Smith: Fourteen-year-old, why must...

Stevie Smith: Fourteen-year-old, why must...

Fourteen-year-old, why must you giggle and dote,
Fourteen-year-old, why are you such a goat?
I'm fourteen years...

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Marcus Annaeus Lucanus: Greatness collapses of...

Marcus Annaeus Lucanus: Greatness collapses of...

Greatness collapses of itself, such is the limit the gods have set to the growth of prosperous...

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Hesiod: We know how...

Hesiod: We know how...

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true...

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Yevgeny Yevtushenko: A poet's autobiography...

Yevgeny Yevtushenko: A poet's autobiography...

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can be only a footnote.

Source:...

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Paul Newman: [Getting the truth...

Paul Newman: [Getting the truth...

[Getting the truth in the New York Post has been as] difficult as finding a good hamburger in...

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Charlie Sheen: Life all comes...

Charlie Sheen: Life all comes...

Life all comes down to a few moments. This is one of them.

Source: Just before...

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