Napoleon Hill Quotes
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As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later.
Alistair Cooke
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The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy. The nihilist, that strange martyr who has no faith, who goes to the stake without enthusiasm, and dies for what he does not believe in, is a purely literary product. He was invented by Turgenev, and completed by Dostoevsky. Robespierre came out of the pages of Rousseau as surely as the People's Palace rose out debris of a novel. Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose.
Oscar Wilde
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Economics is a very difficult subject. I've compared it to trying to learn how to repair a car when the engine is running.
Ben Bernanke
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Even in my stand-up, there's a lot more positivity and enthusiasm rather than negative, I-hate-everything vibes.
Aziz Ansari
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But he just seems to have an engine . . . that allows him to run marathons pretty well. He's also very solid. He had very few injuries in college, a little bit of a calf problem freshman year, that was it.
Chris Smith
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Optimism, unaccompanied by personal effort, is merely a state of mind and not fruitful.
Bill Vaughan
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When, and how, and at what stage of our development did spirituality and our strange notions of religion arise? the need for worship which is nothing more than our frightened refuge into propitiation of a Creator we do not understand? A detective story, the supreme Who-done-it, written in indecipherable hieroglyphics, no Rosetta stone supplied by the consummate Mystifier to tease us poor fumbling unravellers of his plot.
Vita Sackville-West
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Today we know more about Jupiter than the guy who lives next door to us. We can predict where an election will go, we can turn a gene on or off, and we can even send a robot to Mars, but we are lost if asked to explain or predict the phenomena we might expect to know the most about, the actions of our fellow humans.
Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
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From the early days of the Raj, Shakespeare had been woven into the fabric of India's education, and my father understood that in a culture rich with storytelling and fantastical tales, Shakespeare's characters and storylines resonated in a powerful way.
Felicity Kendal
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If I could have just 1 per cent of the money spent on global armaments, no one in this world would go to bed hungry.
Mohamed ElBaradei
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Enthusiasm is the steam that drives the engine.
Napoleon Hill
