Will Durant Quotes
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Will Durant
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All business is capitalistic. You require capital for any sort of business endeavour.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I found out about reviews early on. They're mostly written by sad men on bad afternoons. That's probably why I'm less angry than some writers, who are so narcissistic they consider every line of every review, even a thoughtful one, as major treason.
Barry Hannah
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I'm very good about eating breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Yunjin Kim
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I just followed my parents' example and advice on living, which was to leave the world a better place than you found it. They were professional do-gooders, ministers of the church, social workers, teachers, and missionaries, that sort of thing.
Ian Mckellen
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I watched the Bush administration overreact to the Clinton administration, who believed they did too much nation building, sustaining other countries, and that's why we never put the commitment on Afghanistan and Iraq that should have been in there under their policy leadership.
Jack Keane
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He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.
Francis Bacon
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Norwich is a fine city. None finer. If there is another city in the United Kingdom with a school of painters named after it, a matchless modern art gallery, a university with a reputation for literary excellence which can boast Booker Prize-winning alumni, one of the grandest Romanesque cathedrals in the world, and an extraordinary new state-of-the-art library then I have yet to hear of it.
Stephen Fry
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My mother was adorable, a great giggler. My father was very strong and could be quite frightening.
Zoe Wanamaker
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Lonely women destroy themselves; lonely men threaten the world.
Victor LaValle
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Pope has elegantly said a perfect woman's but a softer man. And if we take in the consideration, that there can be but one rule of moral excellence for beings made of the same materials, organized after the same manner, and subjected to similar laws of Nature, we must either agree with Mr. Pope, or we must reverse the proposition, and say, that a perfect man is a woman formed after a coarser mold.
Catharine Macaulay
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Will Durant
