Eric Ries Quotes
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The harming of animals for any reason is shameful, but torturing them for mere vanity is senseless. Slaughtering animals for their fur or harming them for cosmetic purposes is disgusting and not worth the perfect shade of lipstick.
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I don't listen to my old music of Vanity's unless I have to hear it playing in a mall or something place like that.
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'Pride And Prejudice' takes place in a similar period to 'Vanity Fair,' and yet there's a huge difference between Jane Austen and Thackeray.
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What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.
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I never want to be that person again, that Vanity.
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Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism. So I distance myself, because I feel everything.
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I am not scared of anyone. I will write and publish my books.
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Stupidity talks, vanity acts.
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Three publishers came to me at the White House after George lost and said, 'We would like to publish your book.' I said, 'Well, I don't have a book,' and they said well it's a well known fact that you have kept diaries.
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Then a strange thing happened. She turned to him and smiled, and as he saw her smile every rag of anger and hurt vanity dropped from him — as though his very moods were but the outer ripples of her own, as though emotion rose no longer in his breast unless she saw fit to pull an omnipotent controlling thread.
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Good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handled with gloves. Now, human respect—you don't call a man a coward or a liar lightly, but if you spend your life sparing people's feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can't distinguish what should be respected in them.
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If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t distinguish what should be respected in them.
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It is curious how vanity helps the successful man and wrecks the failure.
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Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity.
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A woman's vanity is interested in making the object of her choice the god of her idolatry.
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One is honest about oneself either with a sense of shame or with vanity.
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Work, finish, publish.
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Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are!
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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I can't remember 16 bars. Unless you write it, you can't. I just do it bar for bar.
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When I grew up, I had a lot of fun ski racing with my friends. We pushed each other, and this made it easier to work hard.
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Just because you have so much to give does not mean that they'll all be accepted. There's more to giving than just giving.
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That dog is mine said those poor children; that place in the sun is mine; such is the beginning and type of usurpation throughout the earth. [Fr., Ce chien est a moi, disaient ces pauvres enfants; c'est la ma place au soleil. Voila le commencement et l'image de l'usurpation de toute la terre.]
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Vanity metrics are the numbers you want to publish on TechCrunch to make your competitors feel bad.
