Arthur Wellesley Quotes
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I don't need to be motivated by anybody. Never have.
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The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body.
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You only get one chance in this thing called life. I know that is a bit maudlin and obscure, but it's a fact, and you can make a profound difference in people's lives without having a title in front of your name.
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Religion is induced insanity.
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You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.
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Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.
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My three husbands were afraid of me. I am a very powerful woman.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.
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You're successful if you can get one person to pick it up and put it on the turntable and go, Wow, thanks for writing that!
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Today in India there are all sections of people, as the BJP realized when the poor voted them out.
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Ambition is important. Of course you can't get anywhere without talent, but there are a lot of talented people. To succeed, you have to be the most ambitious talented person.
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In a marketplace where it's so easy to produce products, where your competitors can essentially match you on the product itself, you need to have something else. You need to have an added value, and that added value is the identity, the idea behind your brand.
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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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When we launched the WineLibrary website in 1996, I didn't even own a computer yet. I just understood that there was an opportunity here to market in a different way.
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I've had many nicknames over the years: V, Nessa, Nessy Poo, Nessy Bear and Van. Only my parents call me Van, though, and I hate it. I get embarrassed.
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If you go to prison, your child support adds up.
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Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.
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Most well-known serial killers have victims numbering in the dozens, have sent taunting letters to the police or have done bizarre things to the bodies.
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There is no arguing with Johnson: for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it.
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I'm from the Mississippi delta originally.
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Nequam illud verbum‘st, Bene vult, nisi qui bene facit.
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He exulted in the possession of himself once more; he realized how much of the delight of the world he had lost when he was absorbed in that madness which they called love; he had had enough of it; he did not want to be in love anymore if love was that.
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Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.
