Arlene Francis Quotes
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I like to combine visits to more than one place when I go on my international tours in order to get more done. I'm from Ahmedabad where we have a saying, 'Single-fare, double journey.'
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My art and poetry is very political now. Because you've got to find that truth within you and express yourself. Somewhere out there, I know, there will be people who will listen.
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It is discouraging. But at the time same, I know it could have been worse.
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Criticism is a destroyer of self-worth and esteem.
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Overcome any bitterness that may have come because you were not up to the magnitude of the pain entrusted to you. Like the mother of the world who carries the pain of the world in her heart, you are sharing in a certain measure of that cosmic pain, and are called upon to meet it in joy instead of self pity.
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Show is not substance; realities govern wise men.
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It is profitable wisdom to know when we have done enough: Much time and pains are spared in not flattering ourselves against probabilities.
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Plato used to say to Xenocrates the philosopher, who was rough and morose, "Good Xenocrates, sacrifice to the Graces.
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The greatest general is he who makes the fewest mistakes.
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When the German people trusting to the promises made by President Wilson in his Fourteen Points, laid down their arms in November 1918, a fateful struggle thereby came to an end for which perhaps individual statesmen, but certainly not the peoples themselves could be held responsible.
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The idea that it is necessary to go to a university in order to become a successful writer . . . is one of those fantasies that surround authorship.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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I really cannot tolerate people who always find excuses or reasons why certain things won't work. Find reasons and solutions to make it work.
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I know when something ain't right, and I know exactly what I will or won't tolerate.
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You have to keep your long hair.
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Don't do what you can do - try what you can't do.
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When you have a lot of time, when you're not working a full-time job, you have a lot of time to question things and think about things. Some of it's about romantic relationships, some of it's about drugs, about religion, about this mass of humanity traveling through life doing all this crazy stuff, not really knowing why or for what.
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If there's anything intolerance can't tolerate, it's ridicule!
