Quotes are the key to the knowledge and wisdom of many great people. Find your own beacon on the road to success among our collection of inspirational quotes.
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Fear of women love more than hate the man.
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There's always room for improvement no matter what.
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The only shame in masturbation is the shame of not doing it well.
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You put a disk here and then you put another disk that is a triangle at the other end and then you balance them on your finger and keep on adding. I don't use rectangles - they stop. You can use them; I have at times, but only when I want to block, to constipate movement.
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Theatre is a mirror, a sharp reflection of society. The greatest playwrights are moralists.
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Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
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A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem.
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Life is a tragedy wherein we sit as spectators for a while and then act our part in it.
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Travel is a caprice in childhood, a passion in youth, a necessity in manhood, and an elegy in old age.
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If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying closer attention to the little things.
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In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.
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Fear is a belief - beliefs can be changed.
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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
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We will have a total chaos without books, literature, and library.
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The crickets felt it was their duty to warn everybody that summertime cannot last for ever. Even on the most beautiful days in the whole year - the days when summer is changing into autumn - the crickets spread the rumor of sadness and change.
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The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
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"I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always means an affaire de coeur."
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If we are to make progress, we must not repeat history but make new history. We must add to inheritance left by our ancestors.
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Nations do not die from invasion; they die from internal rottenness.
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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice.
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For me, a good thriller must teach me something about the real world. Thrillers like 'Coma,' 'The Hunt for Red October' and 'The Firm' all captivated me by providing glimpses into realms about which I knew very little - medical science, submarine technology and the law.
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Envy wounds with false accusations, that is with detraction, a thing which scares virtue.
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The song is sort of a study in unconscious cruelty. But everybody seems more concerned with what was thrown off the bridge than they are with the thoughtlessness of people expressed in the song.
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Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.
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Besides surface qualities, such as rough and smooth, dull and shiny, hard and soft, textiles also includes colour, and, as the dominating element, texture, which is the result of the construction of weaves. Like any craft it may end in producing useful objects, or it may rise to the level of art.
