Great Quotes
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My great fear has always been complete and utter failure. Hence, you see, all the dispossessed people in my fiction, and why I try to earn as much money as I can. It's a defense. I don't enjoy it or do anything with it.
Peter Ackroyd
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It was a great pitch. It was the right pitch. He just went out of the strike zone to get it. That's what great hitters do.
Joe Mays
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It's a great project that allows a recurring revenue stream to happen in bars, restaurants and airline lounges. These aren't for arcades.
Nolan Bushnell
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I'm a small dog guy. I don't want to be pattin' with the big Rottweiler or Great Dane. I like those little guys that jump on your lap and don't knock you over when they do.
Joe Garagiola
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Here is the tragedy of theology in its distilled essence: The employment of high-powered human intellect, of genius, of profoundly rigorous logical deduction—studying nothing. In the Middle Ages, the great minds capable of transforming the world did not study the world; and so, for most of a millennium, as human beings screamed in agony—decaying from starvation, eaten by leprosy and plague, dying in droves in their twenties—the men of the mind, who could have provided their earthly salvation, abandoned them for otherworldly fantasies.
Andrew Bernstein
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The theory in great families was 'why work if you don't have to.' Being a public figure was reserved for movie stars.
Jacqueline de Ribes
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Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.
Dean Koontz
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Native plants give us a sense of where we are in this great land of ours. I want Texas to look like Texas and Vermont to look like Vermont.
Lady Bird Johnson
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You've got to stay super focused on shipping product. There isn't a version two or three if there isn't a great version one.
Brendan Iribe
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The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilized men.
Bertrand Russell
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The key in mastering any kind of sales is switching statements about you and how great you are and what you do, to statements about them, and how great they are and how they will produce more and profit more from ownership of your product or service.
Jeffrey Gitomer
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Violence is interesting. This is a great obstacle to world peace and also to more thoughtful television programming.
P. J. O'Rourke
