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The land of embarrassment and breakfast.
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What is taken away is greater than the sum of what was there. This may not be mathematically possible; but it is…
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When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.
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Irony ... may be defined as what people miss.
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Global warming is more of a blessing than a curse.
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When we fall in love, we hope - both egotistically and altruistically - that we shall be finally, truly seen: judged and…
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Perhaps the world progresses not by maturing, but by being in a permanent state of adolescence, of thrilled discovery.
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This is what those who haven’t crossed the tropic of grief often fail to understand: the fact that someone is dead may…
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You put together two people who have not been put together before; and sometimes the world is changed, sometimes not. They may…
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There is a German word, Sehnsucht, which has no English equivalent; it means 'the longing for something'. It has Romantic and mystical…
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Why should anything happen when everything has happened?
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As I've explained to my wife many times, you have to kill your wife or mistress to get on the front page…
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They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that's the case, there should be an…
— Ginger Baker
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The truths that I know best I have learned on my knees. I never know a thing well, till it is burned…
— John Bunyan
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They used to give us a day-it was called International Women's Day. In 1975 they gave us a year, the Year of…
— Bella Abzug
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A thing well done is worth doing.
— Hugh Leonard
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To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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A great deal of the joy of life consists in doing perfectly, or at least to the best of one's ability, everything…
— William Matthews
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A thing well said will be wit in all languages.
— John Dryden
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Say a thing well and it will be remembered-and so too will you.
— Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet
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Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.
— Plato
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Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.
— Sophocles
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In an age of specialization people are proud to be able to do one thing well, but if that is all they…
— Dennis Flanagan
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Doing the right thing is important, which is where strategy comes in. But doing that thing well—execution—is what sets companies apart. After…
— Jeffrey Pfeffer
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