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41 quotesWhen a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime.
Eloquence
Josh Billings
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Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.
Failure
Kenneth Ewart Boulding
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Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
Men
John Burroughs
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For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.
Death and Dying
Johnny Carson
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He is to be educated not because he's to make shoes, nails, and pins, but because he is a man.
Education
William Ellery Channing
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Enough shovels of earth -- a mountain. Enough pails of water -- a river.
Growth
Chinese Proverb
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A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy.
Fools and Foolishness
John Churton Collins
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Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not.
Force
Pierre Corneille
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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
Change
Jimmy Dean
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Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
Maxim
Denis Diderot
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Sentences are like sharp nails, which force truth upon our memories.
Justice
Denis Diderot
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A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.
Friends and Friendship
Readers Digest
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The really important things are said over cocktails and are never done.
Communication
Peter F. Drucker
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More can be learned from what works than from what fails.
Learning
Rene Dubos
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Success is the sum of details.
Success
Harvey S. Firestone
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Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.
Conscience
Michel Foucault
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Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.
Business
Oliver Goldsmith
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In a major matter no details are small.
Detail
Paul De Gondi
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Whether a revolutions succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.
Revolutions and Revolutionaries
Heinrich Heine
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Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.
Detail
Heraclitus
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We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.
Protest
Eric Hoffer
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If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.
Potential
William James
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He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
Ambition
Samuel Johnson
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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
Politicians and Politics
Walter Savage Landor
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People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
Goals
Walter Savage Landor
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun