George C. Marshall Quotes
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The man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice against the poor devil who wants ten cents more a day.
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A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
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The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.
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I was never really a comic-book fanatic.
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I don't have the recipe for happiness, but I think the engine is simply having the desire.
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I have really fond memories of growing up in Chicago, and I always love going back. I still have a lot of really good friends from high school that I go to dinner with. It's kind of become a tradition when I go out there to do a show to give a few friends a call, tell some funny stories about high school and walk down memory lane.
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I'm not here to win a popularity contest.
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Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.
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Nothing is more damaging to a new truth than an old error.
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Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
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Good breeding doesn't mean that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice when someone else does.
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Credit is an 'I love debt' score.
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Most entertainment careers aren't going to end in fame.
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I genuinely hit puberty before everyone.
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I go from stool to stool in singles bars hoping to get lucky, but there's never any gum under any of them.
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To talk about “the image” is to think metaphysically, whatever you do.
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There's a kind of a fundamental irresponsibility in playwriting, and the strength of playwriting comes from that irresponsibility.
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The team knows they can do a better job, and they're after it.
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I'll confess that, from an early age, I was a huge fan of President Reagan because my parents bought me an enormous stuffed monkey that they named President Reagan - yes, I get it now.
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I will give you the best I have.
