Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
The wisdom of the ignorant somewhat resembles the instinct of animals; it is diffused in but a very narrow sphere, but within the circle it acts with vigor, uniformity, and success.
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People still don't appreciate how ephemeral success is.
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I think people are going to like my new shoes. I like them. I had a lot of success with the one last year, but this year's shoe is going to be a little different, but at the same time it's going to be a little spin-off on last year's shoe.
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When you educate a girl, you kick-start a cycle of success. It makes economic sense. It makes social sense. It makes moral sense. But, it seems, it's not common sense yet.
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I had a one-year-old son. How will my failure or success limit what he becomes? I was trying to write screenplays. It doesn't pay very well until you sell one. I was poor.
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Focus on being balanced - success is balance.
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No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.
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Success is a completely abstract thing - it has no bearing on daily life, family matters, the matter of artistic creation, but it can affect grace, and if I lose that, I really have gained nothing from success.
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Whenever you have taken up work in hand, you must see it to the finish. That is the ultimate secret of success. Never, never, never give up!
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The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.
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The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
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A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.
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The All-Wise Maker attaches hundreds of instances of wisdom to each of the beings in the palace of the universe and equips them to perform hundreds of duties. To all trees He bestows instances of wisdom to the number of its fruits and gives duties to the number of its flowers.
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We can't really digest food unless there's hunger. So we can't really assimilate spiritual wisdom unless we feel the need for it.
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Success will be when I can have a real swimming pool instead of the fifty-dollar one I buy at Kmart every year. But I don't want to get robbed of any authenticity to try and make money.
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Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
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Nobody travels on the road to success without a puncture or two.
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Everyone has a warped vision of Hollywood and what success in Hollywood is like.
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Most people don't have so much talent that they can become a success all their own. We all need people to help us and lift us up.
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Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God.
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The Spirit is neither good nor bad, it runs where the wild heart leads "Wisdom begins in wonder".
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I definitely have my opinions that I'm very vocal about and I'm not afraid to put them out there.
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My grandma was actually a pretty well-known opera singer in Cuba, and then my mom was a ballerina. Two of my three sisters are dancers, so we grew up in the arts.
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We are going to try to find you. We have teams of people canvassing neighborhoods and visiting churches and relief centers.
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The wisdom of the ignorant somewhat resembles the instinct of animals; it is diffused in but a very narrow sphere, but within the circle it acts with vigor, uniformity, and success.
