"America is an empire. I hope you know……" — Felix Dennis
"America is an empire. I hope you know that now. All empires, by definition, are bumbling, shambolic, bullying, bureaucratic affairs, as certain of the rightness of their cause in infancy, as they are corrupted by power in their dotage."
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85 Quotes by Felix Dennis
Felix Dennis has 85 quotes on this site.
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Whatever qualities the rich may have, they can be acquired by anyone with the tenacity to become rich.
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As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous…
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The bottom line is that if I did it, you can do it. I got rich without the benefit of…
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Fear not. For fear itself is fed by fear, and all fears pass. Did no one tell you so? Come…
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It's very difficult to be continuously charitable in a capitalistic society. You've also got to make sure that you can…
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I've been busy for years, buying land, often under pseudonyms, and planting trees on it. All the money is going…
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People who grow rich almost always improve their sex life. More people want to have sex with them. That's just…
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Rich people always have a certain degree of debt. Apparently it helps to reduce taxes. I'm not so hot on…
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When you come across real talent, it is sometimes worth allowing them to create the structure in which they choose…
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Most of the worst errors I made in my life came from forgetting to act small.
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Sometimes, to ensure that a talented individual will work for you, or will stay working with you, you need to…
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Having a great idea is simply not enough. The eventual goal is vastly more important than any idea. It is…
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The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation…
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The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals move, and the weights they carry, is a matter of…
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The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service.
— Irving Babbitt
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
— Honore de Balzac
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I wanted to be a neurologist. That seemed to be the most difficult, most intriguing, and the most important aspect…
— Roger Bannister
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Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all…
— Saint Basil
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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one…
— Arnold Bennett
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I started my music career at 18 and for a long while I let other people handle my affairs.
— Sophie Ellis Bextor
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Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
— Ambrose Bierce
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A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they…
— Aeschylus
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