Conn Iggulden Quotes
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Art is going to make a bigger comeback than ever. That's the upside to things getting challenging.
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The hypothesis that economic organization is the resultant of a series of historic accidents is intructive in that many organizational innovations appear to be the result of trial and error.
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I would be ecstatic if the very first writer to step foot in a Storyknife cabin was an Alaska Native woman writer.
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Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.
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That's the good thing about being president, I can do whatever I want.
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Of compelling consideration is the fact that words acquire scope and function from the history of events which they summarize.
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I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.
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Rouse the lion from his lair.
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There is a difference between not understanding and being willfully obtuse.
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I can't stand Paris. I hate the place. Full of people talking French, which is a thing I bar. It always seems to me so affected.
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That is the true definition of sin; when knowing right you do the lower, ah, then you sin. Where there is no knowledge, sin is not present.
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I have a high art: I hurt with cruelty those who wound me.
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Though business conditions may change, corporations and securities may change, and financial institutions and regulations may change, human nature remains the same. Thus the important and difficult part of sound investment, which hinges upon the investor's own temperament and attitude, is not much affected by the passing years.
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What we in industry learned in dealing with people is that people do not work just for money and that if you are trying to motivate, money is not the most effective tool.
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If a scene is longer than three pages, it better be for a good reason.
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In the ancient world and, above all, among the Greeks, human nature was held in high esteem.
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I eat very well. I cook for my family every night. We eat a variety of things, including chicken, fish, pork, lentils, all veggies, pastas, and salads. You name it, we eat it - except salmon, which I find disgusting. Sorry, salmon.
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Governor Isaac Stevens of the Washington Territory said there were a great many white people in our country, and many more would come; that he wanted the land marked out so that the Indians and the white man could be separated.
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This ranks right up there, ... Right up there at the top with anything that happened with the Bulls.
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Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.
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The problem with cosmetic surgery is that people who have it can only see how they look in the mirror. They don't realise how weird they look from other angles. I particularly hate the injections that puff out the face, which are hideous.
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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.
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You cannot deceive the mirror
