"Ninety percent of the friction of daily life……" — Arnold Bennett
"Ninety percent of the friction of daily life is caused by tone of voice."
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82 Quotes by Arnold Bennett
Arnold Bennett has 82 quotes on this site.
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Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
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Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.
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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior…
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We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served…
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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one…
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A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to…
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Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.
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Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.
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Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of…
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A first-rate organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin…
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We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time…
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There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its…
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Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history…
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The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
— Francis Bacon
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On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because…
— Michael Badnarik
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Drug prohibition has caused gang warfare and other violent crimes by raising the prices of drugs so much that vicious…
— Michael Badnarik
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My parents gave me a strict upbringing, which at times has caused me to suffer distress but today I am…
— Brigitte Bardot
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Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that…
— Frederic Bastiat
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Godly sorrow is a gift of the Spirit. It is a deep realization that our actions have offended our Father…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.
— Victor Borge
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Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they…
— William S. Burroughs
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I am suspending my presidential campaign, because of the continued distractions, the continued hurt caused on me and my family,…
— Herman Cain
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My death will be caused by morphine, which I have deliberately taken with suicidal intent.
— Alex Campbell
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Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.
— George Carlin
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