“ You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there. ”
- Yogi Berra- Copy
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“ I'm a perfectionist, so I can drive myself mad - and other people, too. At the same time, I think that's one of the reasons I'm successful. Because I really care about what I do. ”
- Michelle Pfeiffer- Copy
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“ I have to be careful what I ask for in life, 'cause I always seem to get it! The good thing is, I've got a purpose now, whereas before my purpose was to go out and party. ”
- Robbie Williams- Copy
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“ The law requires a paper towel ad to be scrupulously honest, but allows political candidates to lie without reproach. What's wrong with this picture? ”
- Jef I. Richards- Copy
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“ There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything. ”
- Marquis de Vauvenargues- Copy
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“ Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
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“ Certainly one of the highest duties of the citizen is a scrupulous obedience to the laws of the nation. But it is not the highest duty. ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
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“ Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowledge of human weakness, justly termed cunning, softness of temper, outward obedience and a scrupulous attention to a puerile kind of propriety, will obtain for them the protection of man. ”
- Mary Wollstonecraft- Copy
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“ There is no such thing as can't, only won't. If you're qualified, all it takes is a burning desire to accomplish, to make a change. Go forward, go backward. Whatever it takes! But you can't blame other people or society in general. It all comes from your mind… ”
- Jan Ashford- Copy
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“ It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one; but success will be of a truer kind, earned without fraud or injustice. And even though a man should for a time be unsuccessful, still he must be honest; better to lose all and save character… ”
- Samuel Smiles- Copy
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“ What people don't realize is that intimacy has its conventions as well as ordinary social intercourse. There are three cardinal rules — don't take somebody else's boyfriend unless you've been specifically invited to do so, don't take a drink without being asked, and keep a scrupulous accounting in financial matters. ”
- W. H. Auden- Copy
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“ We rarely quote nowadays to appeal to authority… though we quote sometimes to display our sapience and erudition. Some authors we quote against. Some we quote not at all, offering them our scrupulous avoidance, and so make them part of our "white mythology… ”
- Ihab Hassan- Copy
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“ The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement — but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims. ”
- Joseph Conrad- Copy
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“ Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to tell lies easily and without blushing; but this is a mistake. Mere bald fabrication is useless; the veriest tyro can manage that. It is in the circumstantial detail, the embellishing touches of probability, the general air of scrupulous — almost of pedantic — veracity, that the experienced angler is seen. ”
- Jerome K. Jerome- Copy
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“ If the reviewing of books be… "an ungentle craft," the making of them is, for the most part, a dishonest one — and that department of literature which ought to be entrusted to those only who are distinguished for their moral qualities is, not infrequently, in the hands of authors totally devoid of good taste, good feeling, and generous sentiment… ”
- John Cam Hobhouse- Copy
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