William Hazlitt Quotes
One is always more vexed at losing a game of any sort by a single hole or ace, than if one has never had a chance of winning it.
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We've learned a lot about how information needs to flow effectively amongst a group of people. They need to be fed information, and it needs to be on this constant conveyor belt.
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I was a tomboy and didn't pay too much attention to my clothes.
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The new technologies that we see coming will have major benefits that will greatly alleviate human suffering.
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Everyone will be happier if fewer women are tied to abusive men, drop out of school, and live impoverished lives because of a random pregnancy.
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As a young child, I was never a crier. I never cried to get my way, or even when I was in pain.
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I want to stay alive. Yeah, I want to stay alive. I think that's the main thing. If there's a chance I can live longer, I want to do it.
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We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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I am a control freak. I will admit that freely.
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Even a genius cannot completely resist his Zeitgeist, the spirit of his time.
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You need to impress me, outwit me, compete with me? Go ahead, knock yourself out, I have no problem with that at all.
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable. When you're not doing what you're used to, you could completely fall on your face. You could completely blow it.
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When people are poor, they find ways of making things taste like fish.
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If you're in a conversation with me, the last thing I'll probably say when I'm walking away is, 'Thank you and sorry.'
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It's nice that there are movies and songs about romance - it's what motivates us as human beings. I'm all for being brainwashed by rom-coms.
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I don't have time to be depressed.
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I will continue to support legislation that provides American families and Seniors affordable health care.
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The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when people are actually going to write, they are not going to necessarily prescribe to that, they'll write what they feel.
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Because war is a competition involving life and death, and in which national security and vital interests are at stake, establishing an objective other than winning is not only counterproductive, but also irresponsible and wasteful. In some circumstances, it is also unethical.
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Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
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One is always more vexed at losing a game of any sort by a single hole or ace, than if one has never had a chance of winning it.
