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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Never permit yourself to indulge in cheap flattery, which often times means to merely satisfy the individuals vanity and sometimes to ingratiate the flatter into the good graces of the flattered.
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I don't think the candidate would be directly responsible for things that their supporters say, but when it gets to a certain level, they ought to say, 'Cut it out.'
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I'm just trying to grow. That's one thing I told myself is, 'Don't worry about who people say is the best player.'
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Enjoin what is good and forbid what is evil before the worst amongst you are given authority over you and then when even the best of you make dua against them, their duas will not be accepted.
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We cannot go after thousands of men until we learn now to win one.
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I will give you the best I have.
