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«Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.»
Author: Andre Malraux
(Historian, Novelist, Statesman)
| About:
Ability,
Action,
Courage,
Failure,
Ideas,
Risk-taking,
Success
| Keywords:
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«Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters.»
Author: M. F. K. Fisher
| About:
Family
| Keywords:
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«Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.»
«Man is head, chest and stomach. Each of these animals operates, more often than not, individually. I eat, I feel, I even, although rarely, think. This jungle crawls and teems, is hungry, roars, gets angry, devours itself, and its cacophonic concert does not even stop when you are asleep.»
Author: Rene Daumal
| Keywords:
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«And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see -- or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.»
Author: Alice Walker
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«I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.»
Author: Frank Sinatra
(Actor, Singer)
| About:
Women
| Keywords:
flunk, flunked, flunks, fond, more often than not, PhD
«Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
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«If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. ... I get most joy in life out of music.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
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