“ We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed. ”
- James Baldwin- Copy
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“ During a negotiation, it would be wise not to take anything personally. If you leave personalities out of it, you will be able to see opportunities more objectively. ”
- Brian Koslow- Copy
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“ Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must. ”
- Samuel Beckett- Copy
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“ Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information. ”
- Man Ray- Copy
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“ I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left. ”
- Margaret Thatcher- Copy
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“ I have accepted fear as a part of life — specifically the fear of change. I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back. ”
- Erica Jong- Copy
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“ Man would be "otherwise." That's the essence of the specifically human. ”
- Antonio Machado- Copy
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“ What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly. ”
- Jonathan Swift- Copy
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“ Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous — who are each individually lost in a throng made up of themselves? ”
- John Keats- Copy
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“ Personally, I know nothing about sex because I've always been married. ”
- Zsa Zsa Gabor- Copy
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“ A man cannot utter 2 or 3 sentences without disclosing to intelligent ears precisely where he stands in life and thought. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government. ”
- Johannes A. Gaertner- Copy
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“ In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn. ”
- Nathaniel Branden- Copy
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“ No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure. ”
- James Polk- Copy
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“ Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult. ”
- Warren Bennis- Copy
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“ A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but as a group decide nothing can be done. ”
- Fred Allen- Copy
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“ Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught. ”
- Winston Churchill- Copy
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“ Morality is the attitude we adopt toward people whom we personally dislike. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ The dog was created specially for children. He is the god of frolic. ”
- Henry Ward Beecher- Copy
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“ It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
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“ Flattery is telling the other person precisely what he thinks about himself. ”
- Dale Carnegie- Copy
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“ Live not in yesterdays, Look back and you may sorrow. Live precisely for today, Look forward to tomorrow. ”
- J.J. Hulsgen- Copy
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“ Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying. ”
- Ingmar Bergman- Copy
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“ Progress is precisely that which the rules and regulations did not foresee. ”
- Ludwig von Mises- Copy
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“ The only kind of freedom that the mob can imagine is freedom to annoy and oppress its betters, and that is precisely the kind that we mainly have. ”
- H.L. Mencken- Copy
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“ The better part of statesmanship might be to know clearly and precisely what not to do. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
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“ Each group of words is processed by the brain as a single thought. And because the words are viewed in context, you retain them more accurately than if you processed the words individually. ”
- Rose Saperstein- Copy
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“ Although I was well past my teenage troubles, our music was specifically designed to lubricate the passage from adolescence to adulthood. ”
- Pete Townshend- Copy
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