Og Mandino Quotes
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I went to a woman for advice about how to be in business, but I learned a great deal from men.
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Good listeners, like precious gems, are to be treasured.
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People have always thought of me as being something, but I'm just a human being like everyone else.
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It is easy to see what many people, women especially, admire about Sarah Palin. Here is a mother of five who can see the bright side of having a child with Down syndrome and still find the time and energy to govern the state of Alaska.
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True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
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My parents didn't agree with what was going on, you know, with the communists coming in, Fidel Castro. I didn't see the reason why I needed to go back there and be a part of that exhibition.
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The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, 'At least this is something for which I won't have to study.' But I've realised that an actor needs to be constantly unsure about what he's doing and about what's going on around him. The moment you think you've nailed it, you're dead.
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I kept trying to write these books that were sort of outside of my realm, and I kept failing.
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Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
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On the small scale, 'Ico,' I think, actually delivered a small new thing: holding a character's hand and really feeling like your job is to rescue this person, and establishing a personal connection.
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I am a very selfish person.
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If I'd had the chance, I'd like to have completed my degree before going full-time, and sports journalism was something that always interested me. Dad used to buy a paper, and I always turned straight to the sports pages.
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The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I.
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You have to be a crazy guy and a little eccentric to be very successful.
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Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
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The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased.
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Sometimes when you play a golf course for the first time, you just got to be committed to your targets.
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The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying that since Demosthenes.
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Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.
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All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me.
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In times past, knowledge of the bowel was more widespread and people were taught how to care for the bowel. Somehow bowel wisdom got lost and it became something that no one wanted to talk about anymore.
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Your worst enemy Becomes your best friend, once he's underground.
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Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
