Orison Swett Marden Quotes
It pays to cultivate popularity. It doubles success possibilities, develops manhood, and builds up character.
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I want to thank all of the fans and media who made playing in the NFL such a wonderful experience. I have had the pleasure of meeting many of them.
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I didn't agree with what Joe McCarthy was trying to do, but I sure did admire his methods.
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You get tough when you grow up unloved. People described me as a boyish girl - rather shy, but I didn't show it. I had an attitude. I was rather wild. I lied a lot because I knew the alternative was to be punished. As I got older I realised I didn't have to lie any more and it was a nice feeling. I could be myself.
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Our house is a constant mayhem of music, noise, socializing and business. It vibrates life, as a house should.
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The coolest person to yourself is yourself, and we're like nerds, and we love to be smart, and that's okay.
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I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.
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The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.
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The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that we should be separate, all right, but in this separate state or separate existence, the black man should be given the opportunity and the incentive to do for himself what the white man has done for himself.
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Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.
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I'm still learning my craft, and I've been writing since I was nine.
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I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death.
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Once again, Pat Robertson leaves us speechless with his insensitivity and arrogance.
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I've always been quite a happy person, but when I'm low, I'm pretty darn low.
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I just don't watch a lot of TV.
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But God, who is immortal, has no need of difference of sex, nor of succession.
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You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.
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Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
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There's something really cool about TV. TV, you get the luxury of having the same people around. It is such a blessing when you get a TV job. You really have a chance to get to make, like, work friends. I think TV is one of the few mediums where I've had the opportunity to get to know my crew members.
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It's time for the human race to enter the solar system.
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WFT-II was the only British software company that could be mentioned in the same sentence as such major U.S. companies as Microsoft or Lotus. The sentence would probably run along the lines of 'WFT-II, unlike such major U.S. companies as Microsoft or Lotus ...' but it was a start.
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Profiting from being in the minority leads to interesting paradoxes. Rather diabolically, if all traders use the same set of rules, they will end up doing the same thing at the same time and cannot therefore be in the minority.
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I'm always fascinated by losers. Also, in my "Foucault's Pendulum," the main characters, who are in a way losers, they are more interesting than the winners.
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God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than of any other slackers. If you are thinking of becoming a Christian, I warn you you are embarking on something which is going to take the whole of you, brains and all.
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It pays to cultivate popularity. It doubles success possibilities, develops manhood, and builds up character.
