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If you have ambition, you might not achieve anything, but without ambition, you are almost certain not to achieve anything. — Whitfield Diffie
In physiology, as in all other sciences, no discovery is useless, no curiosity misplaced or too ambitious, and we may be certain that every advance… — Ernest Starling
It was the hour in which objects lose the consistency of shadow that accompanies them during the night and gradually reacquire colors, but seem to… — Italo Calvino
Many bad golfers marry, feeling that a wife's loving solicitude may improve their game. But they are rugged, thick-skinned men, not sensitive and introspective. It… — P.G. Wodehouse
I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.... — Ivan Turgenev
I'm tryna do it all tonight, I got plans. I got a certain lust for life, and as it stands. — Drake
It take a certain type of man to teach, to be far from hood but to understand the streets. — Drake
I HAVE REALIZED THAT FIGHTING FOR WOMEN'S RIGHTS HAS TOO OFTEN BECOME SYNONYMOUS WITH MAN-HATING. IF THERE IS ONE THING I KNOW FOR CERTAIN, IT… — Emma Watson
We may think God wants actions of a certain kind, but God wants people of a certain kind. — C.S. Lewis
Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic. This is a most searching and true diagnosis. Gratitude can be a vaccine that can prevent… — John Henry Jowett
One cannot run from a challenge without losing. To flee is signing a death warrant to dignity and character, and, having run, there is no… — Sigurd F. Olson
Animals, even plants, lie to each other all the time, and we could restrict the research to them, putting off the real truth about ourselves… — Lewis Thomas
The number of humble-bees in any district depends in a great degree on the number of field-mice, which destroy their combs and nests; and Mr.… — Charles Darwin
Did you ever drink so much of a certain type of alcohol that you get so sick that you can never drink the same kind… — Doug Stanhope
Champagne does have one regular drawback: swilled as a regular thing a certain sourness settles in the tummy, and the result is permanent bad breath.… — Truman Capote
...as all souls are equal before their Maker, a two inch putt counts the same as a 250 yard drive. There is a comedy in… — John Updike
All of us have an 'inner clock,' a certain pace at which we function most comfortably and effectively. — Ken Venturi
There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade,… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
All great scientists have, in a certain sense, been great artists; the man with no imagination may collect facts, but he cannot make great discoveries. — Karl Pearson
Human rights, human freedoms, and human dignity have their deepest roots somewhere outside the perceptible world. These values are as powerful as they are because,… — Vaclav Havel

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