William Macneile Dixon Quotes
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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
Isaac Asimov
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My aunt is a newscaster in Lubbock, Texas, and she got a letter that said, 'Natalie Maines will be shot dead at their show in Dallas, Texas,' with the date of our concert. It was freaky to see that in writing.
Natalie Maines
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The American formula for creating business is not to have the government create business.
John Sununu
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You can't control the quality of projects that are coming to you, so if you get several in a row that are quality, you take them.
John Travolta
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Anyone who used the word hip probably wasn't.
Lisa Unger
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INXS never had that groupie thing. No, no we really never did. Not in a sexual way - well, alright, then, maybe years ago. I've done a few stupid things in my time, but you've got to have respect for yourself, otherwise you end up getting used
Michael Hutchence
INXS
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Clothes and manners do not make the...
Arthur Ashe
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It is proper for every one to consider, in the case of all men, that he who has not been a servant cannot become a praiseworthy master; and it is meet that we should plume ourselves rather on acting the part of a servant properly than that of the master, first, towards the laws, (for in this way we are servants of the gods), and next, towards our elders.
Plato
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Let a man accept his destiny, No pity and no tears.
Euripides
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Too much zeal offends where indirection works.
Euripides
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What does a philosopher demand of himself, first and last? To overcome his time in himself, to become "timeless.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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What a teacher needs to know about psychology "might almost be written on the palm of one's hand."
William James
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Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory. - Diane Arbus By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.
Lao Tzu
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In Russia, we are ready to listen to our partners, ready to listen to appraisals and assessments when it is done in a friendly manner, in order to establish contacts and create a common atmosphere and dedicate ourselves to shared values. But we absolutely will not accept when such things are used as a tool of political struggle. I want everybody to know that. This is our message.
Vladimir Putin
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No two of us learn our language alike, nor, in a sense, does any finish learning it while he lives.
Willard Van Orman Quine
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Edward Conard’s book represents the most cogent and persuasive analysis of the Financial Crisis to date. It is deeper and likely more accurate than what we have seen so far from journalists, academ- ics, and particularly former government officials.
Andrei Shleifer
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Our desires attract supporting reasons as a magnet the iron fillings.
William Macneile Dixon
