William Hazlitt Quotes
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I call Alibaba '1,001 mistakes.' We expanded too fast, and then in the dot-com bubble, we had to have layoffs. By 2002, we had only enough cash to survive for 18 months. We had a lot of free members using our site, and we didn't know how we'd make money. So we developed a product for China exporters to meet U.S. buyers online. This model saved us.
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Everything I do comes from the clubs. If I lose that, I'm done.
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Music is the great equalizer.
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God and the Gay Christian is a game changer. Prepare to be challenged and enlightened, provoked and inspired.
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One has to resign oneself to being a nuisance if one wants to get anything done.
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I particularly loved the adjective bookish, which I found other people used about as often as ramrod or chum or teetotaler.
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[I was advised] to read Jordan's 'Cours d'analyse'; and I shall never forget the astonishment with which I read that remarkable work, the first inspiration for so many mathematicians of my generation, and learnt for the first time as I read it what mathematics really meant.
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Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside.
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Television is a pretty great job, to begin with, and I wouldn't have anything, if it weren't for the jobs that I've had in the past that have built up to that
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For the professors in the academy, for the humanities generally, misery is more amenable to analysis: happiness is a harder nut to crack.
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I've been delighted by Cannes and Toronto but I keep saying I don't know how good we're going to be received in America because that's where it's most challenging
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Every man is his own worst enemy.
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Premature independence is the daughter of conceit.
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Little prigs and three-quarter madmen may have the conceit that the laws of nature are constantly broken for their sakes.
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Sir, I think all Christians, whether Papists or Protestants, agree in the essential articles, and that their differences are trivial, and rather political than religious.
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You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.
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We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.
