Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.
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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.
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As a young child, I was never a crier. I never cried to get my way, or even when I was in pain.
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All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness.
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I love taking chances.
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The working class owes all honor and respect to the first men who planted the standard of labor solidarity on the hostile frontier of unorganized industry.
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It's good that I put my personal ego aside. My basketball ego was, 'Why we negotiating?' But my personal ego didn't take it personal. I put my personal ego aside a little bit.
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The intelligence failures with respect to Iraq were massive and have damaged our credibility around the world.
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By 1951, television had already made such inroads on the income garnered by motion picture companies that the Golden Era which had prevailed until then was beginning to disintegrate. And by 1953, it had come to an end. Hollywood was a dismal, tragic place.
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You cannot be in pretend for people to like you.
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Anybody who has interacted with me will definitely find me to be a chirpy person.
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I don't know that it's particularly good for my writing process, but I have gotten some very valuable writing ideas and advice through Twitter and Facebook and other social network sites.
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The little kids in the stands are going to give you a good cheer. Sometimes, that overrides the other people.
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I don't work with a stylist.
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Shakespeare is universal.
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I don't think I'm unlike a lot of people. I am just someone who is trying to find that mate, and I think it's a really hard thing to do.
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If you're yelling you're the one who's lost control of the conversation.
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My entire history with the Navy have been trying to get the Navy to focus on families and child care and all the things that they were way behind in - housing, all of those things.
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The whole concept of salvation through belief offers strength to those who doubt themselves.
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I think we all have the same spirituality deep inside and we grow to learn more about it all the time, and we try very hard to become better people as we grow. We search all the time for the truth. We learn more about the world and we can't have thoughts like, "We are better than them" or "They are not good enough for God". This is very bad way of thinking, you know?
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If there is any one thing that will bring peace and contentment into the human heart, and into the family, it is to live within our means. And if there is any one thing that is grinding and discouraging and disheartening, it is to have debts and obligations that one cannot meet.
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As the great grandchildren of the industrial revolution, we have learned, at last, that the heedless pursuit of more is unsustainable and, ultimately, unfulfilling. Our planet, our security, our sense of equanimity and our very souls demand something better, something different.
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Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.
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A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there.
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Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.
