Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
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My father was a lawyer.
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We have this idea that extroverts are better salespeople. As a result, extroverts are more likely to enter sales; extroverts are more likely to get promoted in sales jobs. But if you look at the correlation between extroversion and actual sales performance - that is, how many times the cash register actually rings - the correlation's almost zero.
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People are not really that forgiving when they pay for tickets to come see you and you don't show up.
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Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
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I'm less interested in how people are following each other and more interested in how they are following topics and tweets themselves. People are following more key words and concepts and more ideas and acting on those rather than individuals or organizations.
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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I look formidable.
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One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.
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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
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I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.
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Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.
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You can promote fights - of course, you have to - you can say 'I'll beat you' or whatever, but you cannot put family, religion, anything like that in the mix. You need to separate things. That is a line a lot of fighters cross.
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Today is a big step in our march toward equality. Gay and lesbian couples now have the right to marry, just like anyone else. #LoveWins.
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My patriotism is subservient to my religion. I cling to India like a child to its mother’s breast, because I feel that she gives me the spiritual nourishment I need. She has the environment that responds to my highest aspiration.
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The purpose of the suit is to harass and discourage rather than to win. The law can be used very easily to harass, and enough harassment on somebody who is simply on the thin edge anyway, well knowing that he is not authorized, will generally be sufficient to cause his professional decease. If possible, of course, ruin him utterly.
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Everybody must have wished at some time that poetry were written by nice ordinary people instead of poets-and, in a better world, it may be; but in this world writers like Constance Carrier are the well oysters that don’t have the pearls.
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Es gibt Männer, die imstande sind, eine Frau, die sie in keiner Weise anzieht, zu heiraten-bloß weil sie den anderen gefällt. Und solche Ehen gibt es auch zwischen so manchen Menschen und ihren Gedanken.
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The thing that makes makeup or clothing or fashion beautiful is the fact that the person wearing them loves themselves and loves being able to kind of use them as artistic tools. And so if I was to give one piece of advice, it would be to find beauty in your core first before you go out into the world and find it in other ways.
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For those of us who have a ground of knowledge which we cannot transmit to outsiders, it is perhaps more profitable to act fearlessly than to argue.
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The wisest of you men is he who has realized, like Socrates, that in respect of wisdom he is really worthless.
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I have wrought great use out of evil tools.
