67.Quotes On Problems:Conversation:Luck:Trust:Humor:Praise:Taste-Part 7
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"The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.." -Winston Churchill-
"Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?".-Frank Moore Colby-
"It is the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor.".-Lord Shaftesbury-
"Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.".-Ambrose Bierce-
"Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.".-Henry Louis Mencken-
"I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic.".-Lisa Alther-
"Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.".-Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart-
"The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much;always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our friends;never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as much as possibly we can;to hearken to what ".-Benjamin Franklin-
"Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.".-Henry Louis Mencken-
"If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.".-Oscar Wilde-
"The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.".-Anthony Robbins-
"Luck generally comes to those who look for it, and my notion is that it taps, once in a lifetime, at everybody's door, but if industry does not open it luck goes away.".-Charles Haddon Spurgeon-
"Honest people will respect us for our merit: the public, for our luck.".-Francois de la Rochefoucauld-
"When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck;men risk theirs.".-Oscar Wilde-
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"The business of a seer is to see;and if he involves himself in the kind of God-eclipsing activities which make seeing impossible, he betrays the trust which his fellows have tacitly placed in him.".-Aldous Huxley-
"Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.".-Francis Bacon-
"I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.".-Kim Basinger-
"Trust not too much to an enchanting face.".-Virgil-
"This miserable state is borne by the wretched souls of those who lived without disgrace and without praise.".-Alighieri Dante-
"The shame that arises from praise which we do not deserve often makes us do things we should otherwise never have attempted.".-Francois de la Rochefoucauld-
"The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.".-Nathaniel Howe-
"Such is the love of praise, so great the anxiety for victory.".-Virgil-
"What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.".-Charles Baudelaire-
"All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting.".-Friedrich Nietzsche-
"Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art.".-Oscar Wilde-
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"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.".-Abraham Lincoln-
"I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.".-Bob Dylan-
"Absolute liberty is absence of restraint;responsibility is restraint;therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.".-Henry Brooks Adams-
"Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.".-Napoleon Hill-
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