Dorothy Dix Quotes
A man usually values that most for which he has labored; he uses that most frugally which he has toiled hour by hour and day by day to acquire.
Quotes to Explore
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Meaningless combinations of words do not suddenly acquire meaning simply because we prefix to them the two other words ' God can'.
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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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To acquire style, begin by affecting none.
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If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.
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Offensive objects, at a proper distance, acquire even a degree of beauty.
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If we conducted ourselves as sensibly in good times as we do in hard times, we could all acquire a competence.
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You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school.
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The wish to acquire is in truth very natural and common, and men always do so when they can.but when they cannot do so, yet wish to do so by any means, then there is folly and blame.
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There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness and none more profitable.
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So we might say that the most important thing one can acquire in college is a well-functioning bullshit meter.
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To entrust to an editor a story over which you have labored and to which your name and reputation are attached can be like sending your daughter off for an evening with Ted Bundy.
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It took less time to build 'Instagram' than it did for me to get my work visa. The app was an instant hit, and Facebook agreed to acquire the startup for about $1 billion in April 2012.
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Americans ought to be the best-traveled, most cosmopolitan people on earth, not only because experience of the world is desirable in its own right, but because as a people acquires a great concentration of power, worldliness becomes a moral imperative.
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On some level, you could say you wouldn't have 'In Style Magazine' at all had Anna Wintour not decided to put celebrities on the cover of 'Vogue' from her earliest years as Editor in Chief.
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Looks didn’t last forever and she wasn’t ready for religion yet. Money was kind of a good compromise, staked up somewhere between cosmetics and eternity.
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Pagford, which by night was no more than a cluster of twinkling lights in a dark hollow far below, was emerging into chilly sunlight.
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England can end the millenium as it started - as the greatest football nation in the world.
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By bringing the past into the present, we create a future just like the past. By letting the past go, we make room for miracles.
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I got myself into a lovely little shall we say controversy with André Breton, by pointing out that the discipline of spontaneity, which he was asking his surrealist neophytes to adopt, was new for language but something that composers had been practicing for centuries.
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A man usually values that most for which he has labored; he uses that most frugally which he has toiled hour by hour and day by day to acquire.
