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Sir Winston Churchill
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It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.
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A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
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Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.
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Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
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If you are going through hell, keep going.
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We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
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All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
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Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
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Responsibility is the price of greatness.
"Chance favors the prepared mind." --- Louis Pasteur
"Try not to be a man of success rather to become a man of value."--- Albert Einstein
"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."--- Albert Einstein
Coco Chanel
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There are people who have money and people who are rich.
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Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.
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Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.
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It is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory of fashion, that heralds your arrival and prolongs your departure.
"I have read so often of people's thoughts in the moment of fear: Of God, or family, or a woman. I admire their control. I thought of nothing, not even of the trap-door above me: I ceased, for those seconds, to exit: I was fear taken neat. At the top of the ladder I banged my head because fear couldn't count steps, hear, or see. Then my head came over the earth floor and nobody shot at me and fear seeped away."---Graham Green
"There will always be people who say it doesn't exist because they cannot have it."---Ernest Hemingway
Oscar Wilde "The picture of Dorian Gray"
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Laughter is not at all a bad beginning of a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
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Music had stirred him like that. Music had troubled him many times. But music was not articulate. It was not a new world, but rather another chaos, that it created in us. Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have music of theor own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?
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Always! That is a dreadful word. It makes me shudder when I hear it. Women are so fond of using it. They spoil every romence by trying to make last for ever. It is a meaningless word, too. The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.
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Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
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Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
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The reason why we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid of ourselves.
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To be good is to be in harmony with one's self. Discord is to be forced to be in harmony with others.
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There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel that no one else has the right to blame us.
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The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.
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You call yesterday the past?
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-What is a cynic?
-A man who knows the price of everything and value of nothing.
-And a sentimentalist?
-Is a man who sees an absurd value in everything and doesn't know the market price of any single thing.
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-What kind of woman is she?
-Genius at daytime and a beauty at night.
-I like looking at geniuses and listening to beautiful people.
Oscar Wilde "Woman of no Importance"
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