Oscar Wilde Quotes
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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As of 2002, two million Latino adults had been diagnosed with diabetes.
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I don't care what size you are or how old you are - once you see the results brought to you by regular exercise, you'll wonder how you survived without it.
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I love Costco.
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I'm not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed.
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I was the first one to say that there could be comfortable, sexy shoes, and it's a big part of our brand.
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Most of the best writing, the most creative writing, the most interesting, the most out-of-the-box kind of stuff, is being done on cable, you know, and on the computer. I mean, whatever it is, Amazon or Netflix or something. Because they're just willing to take chances, you know, and there's a market for it.
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Wal-Mart is an amazing success story. What I particularly admire very much about the late Sam Walton was his policy of valuing his employees. Giving value to employees is very rare in the retail industry. I also admire the strategies Walton used to build up his discount store concept.
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Le sujet d'une belle tragédie doit n'être pas vraisemblable.
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The fiction writer has to engage in a continual examination of conscience. He has to be aware of the freak in himself.
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Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.
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We didn't do enough offensively to get it done, and we don't usually say that.
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I think it is important first of all that the president of the United States underscores our commitment to partnering with countries around the world, even though we're not intimidated by terrorist organisations.
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Inflation is not even a remote risk in the U.S.. Because inflation is so low, monetary policy can afford to be patient to be sure that the recovery is sustained.
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The air of caricature never fails to show itself in the products of reason applied relentlessly and without correction. The observation of clinical facts would seem to be a pursuit of the physician as harmless as it is indispensable. But it seemed irresistibly rational to certain minds that diseases should be as fully classifiable as are beetles and butterflies. This doctrine ... bore perhaps its richest fruit in the hands of Boissier de Sauvauges. In his Nosologia Methodica published in 1768 ... this Linnaeus of the bedside grouped diseases into ten classes, 295 genera, and 2400 species.
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Why don't you do the world a favour. Pull your bottom lip up over your head and swallow.
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Maybe that's why I like gymnastics - because I like to fly.
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I cannot say something different to one person and then another.
