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The way to get things done is to stimulate competition. I do not mean in a sordid, money-getting way, but in the desire to excel. — Charles M. Schwab
Gambling houses are temples where the most sordid and turbulent passions contend; there no spectator can be indifferent. A card or a small square of… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
If a man does not have an ideal and try to live up to it, then he becomes a mean, base and sordid creature, no… — Theodore Roosevelt
No sin is committed merely because a thought enters the mind, provided it is not made welcome. Perhaps we may use the figure that the… — Norman Vincent Peale
Those who oppose all reform will do well to remember that ruin in its worst form is inevitable if our national life brings us nothing… — Theodore Roosevelt
To be happy one must be (a) well fed, unhounded by sordid cares, at ease in Zion, (b) full of a comfortable feeling of superiority… — H. L. Mencken
Men were created for something better than merely to make money. A close application to business, until a competence is gained, is one of the… — Christian Nestell Bovee
All Dickens's humour couldn't save Dickens, save him from his overcrowded life, its sordid and neurotic central tragedy and its premature collapse. But Dickens's humour,… — Stephen Leacock
I was induced to establish several orders of merit, from conviction that emulation, well directed, becomes a useful servant; and, that the latent genius of… — Joseph Lancaster
This sordid affair has become an unacceptable distraction for Representative Weiner, his family, his constituents and the House - and for the good of all,… — Debbie Wasserman Schultz
You fear the world too much,' she answered gently. 'All your other hopes have merged into the hope of being beyond the chance of its… — Charles Dickens
Dan suggested to Owen and me that we were better off to not involve ourselves with Hester. How true! But how we wanted to be… — John Irving
The dreamers are the saviors of the world. As the visible world is sustained by the invisible, so men, through all their trials and sins… — James Allen
To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain… — Oscar Wilde
Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and… — Mark Twain
The few love affairs which had come my way had been rather silly and sordid. They had not revealed the possibilities of love; in fact… — Aleister Crowley
She regretted having taken his hand, she wanted to get away from there as soon as possible, to hide her shame, never again to see… — Paulo Coelho
But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy ambition, of hope… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
But the sun itself, however beneficent, generally, was less kind to Coketown than hard frost, and rarely looked intently into any of its closer regions… — Charles Dickens
Do I fear death? No, I am not afraid of being dead because there's nothing to be afraid of, I won't know it. I fear… — Christopher Hitchens
A dagger is the noble weapon of Brutus. Everyone understands that tyrants fall to daggers. A bomb is a sordid modern device with many complex… — Bruce Sterling
Everything is banal in experience, fleeting in duration, sordid in content; in all respects the same today as generations now dead and buried have found… — Marcus Aurelius
Never mind. Point being that you don't have to get too worked up about us, dear educated minds. You don't have to think of us… — Margaret Atwood
I loved you madly; in the distasteful work of the day, in the wakeful misery of the night, girded by sordid realities, or wandering through… — Charles Dickens
It's a very cheery thing to come into London by any of these lines which run high and allow you to look down upon the… — Arthur Conan Doyle

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