Sean O'Casey Quotes
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I'm a straight shooter, and most of the time my ego doesn't interrupt my relationships.
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Reliable data on the outsourcing of American jobs is sorely missing from the debate on globalization.
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I want to be better at being single, and I want to be better at feeling okay about being single. I don't need a boyfriend.
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If poets often commit suicide, it is not because their poems are bad but because they are good. Whoever heard of a bad poet committing suicide? The reader is only a little better off. The exhilaration of a good poem lasts twenty minutes, an hour at most. Unlike the scientist, the artist has reentry problems that are frequent and catastrophic.
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In every company which I have done strategic planning, the number-one value people choose is always integrity. The second values may be quality of products and services, caring about people, excellent customer service, profitability , innovation, entrepreneurship, and others. But integrity always comes first.
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Thou shalt not answer questionnaires Or quizzes upon world affairs, Nor with compliance Take any test. Thou shalt not sit with statisticians nor commit A social science.
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It was considered a virtue not to talk unnecessarily at sea.
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In theory it is easy to convince an ignorant person; in actual life, men not only object to offer themselves to be convinced, but hate the man who has convinced them.
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Whatever may be your desire to accomplish great deeds, the deep silence of pregnancy never comes to you! The event of the day sweeps you along like straws before the wind whilst ye lie under the illusion that ye are chasing the event,-poor fellows! If a man wishes to act the hero on the stage he must not think of forming part of the chorus; he should not even know how the chorus is made up.
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I am a tariff man, standing on a tariff platform.
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Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II
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And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light.
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I don't get angry very often. I lose my temper rarely. And when I do, there's always a legitimate cause. Normally I have a great lightness of being. I take things in a very happy, amused way.
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The Australian temper is at bottom grim. It is as though the sun has dried up his nature.
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Least said, soonest mended.
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My soul bleeds and the blood steadily, silently, disturbingly slowly, swallows me whole.
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It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be detrimental to keep it.
