Orison Swett Marden Quotes
Many a man owes his advancement very largely to his ability to converse well. The ability to interest people in your conversation, to hold them, is a great power.
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I would love it if people could look at chubby folks with all of our curves, bumps and ridges and just say 'She's beautiful' just like that. You don't have to get on a treadmill as long as your blood pressure is under control and you eat healthy, God bless.
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If somebody told me you'd be a one and a half billion dollar company and be the largest in the world, I wouldn't have believed it myself.
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Not only did I get an A in music but I got an A in ladies.
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Instead of isolating our school and our many subjects from the every day world, we intend to plant it not merely in the French capital, but in what for next summer at least will be the focal point, the capital of the entire civilized world.
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I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
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At night, I love dressing up. I love putting on an outfit.
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
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The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
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A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New York.
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Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
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You get steely nerves playing poker.
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As newly created P2P businesses disrupt the status quo and compete with established companies, they face the difficulty of fitting a square peg into a round hole when it comes to existing regulatory regimes that don't contemplate their business models.
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We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.
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For my life, I need to make my own choices.
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Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and esteem the ancients; and only out of duty has he become a great man.
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I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.
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I don't outline; I listen to a kind of whisper inside the material.
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The images of mankind have become the most basic thing about them. And they're all software, and disembodied. (p. 346)
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Having a child makes you strong and gives you chutzpah. It relaxed my attitude to the job; my center of focus shifted, which I think is very helpful, because even if you're not a very indulgent actor you spend a lot of time thinking about yourself. I don't think that is particularly healthy.
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I identify with women more than men. I guess I have a strong feminine side.
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It could be argued that, in Thailand, many foreigners have come and gone, and the number of people who are considered to be Thai have traveled abroad in a great number.
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Many a man owes his advancement very largely to his ability to converse well. The ability to interest people in your conversation, to hold them, is a great power.
