"One must choose between obscurity with efficiency, and……" — William McFee
"One must choose between obscurity with efficiency, and fame with its inevitable collateral of bluff."
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William McFee
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24 Quotes by William McFee
William McFee has 24 quotes on this site.
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People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right, writes no guarantee against misfortune.
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Responsibility's like a string we can only see the middle of. Both ends are out of sight.
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A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see yow they are getting…
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It is extraordinary how many emotional storms one may weather in safety if one is ballasted with ever so little…
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The world belongs to the Enthusiast who keeps cool.
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A trouble is a trouble, and the general idea, in the country, is to treat it as such, rather than…
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The world is not interested in the storms you encountered, but did you bring in the ship?
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There is nothing like an odor to stir memories.
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If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow.
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The artist in his teens who is happy is a charlatan. Life comes bursting in all around lis too suddenly,…
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Fear, born of the stern matron Responsibility, sits on one's shoulders like some heavy imp of darkness, and one is…
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There is nothing like a start, and being born, however pessimistic one may become in later years, is undeniably a…
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More Bluff Quotes
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one of 52 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it…
— Jean Baudrillard
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The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
— Ambrose Bierce
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I'm not like a poker player. I'm not into bluff. My way is to look someone in the eye and…
— Tori Amos
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Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts...
— David Seabury
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Wine snobbery, of course, is part showmanship, part sophistication, part knowledge, and part bluff
— Leonard Bernstein
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Love should not be a guessing game. In fact, it shouldn't be a game at all. One should lay all…
— Carlos Salinas de Gortari
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Not too many players try to bluff me. If there’s going to be bluffing or stealing going on, I’m going to…
— Johnny Chan
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The empiric easily degenerates into the quack. He does not know where his knowledge begins or leaves off, and so…
— John Dewey
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Never run a bluff with a six-gun.
— Bat Masterson
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Christmas was close at hand, in all his bluff and hearty honesty; it was the season of hospitality, merriment, and…
— Charles Dickens
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Although I have to say, it's become a lot harder for me since I won the world series because everyone…
— Chris Moneymaker
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Even if you haven't encountered great success yet, there is no reason you can't bluff a little and act like…
— Donald Trump
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