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Hispanist Inspirational Quotes (26)

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The cliche is dead poetry.
Gerald Brenan
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Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.
Gerald Brenan
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College today is an expensive option without a lot of economies of scale, right, when you go and live at a college. So you have a system that's increasing its cost base by probably five percent a year.
Gerald Chertavian
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The ABCs are attitude, behavior and communication skills.
Gerald Chertavian
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We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them.
Gerald Brenan
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Words are as recalcitrant as circus animals, and the unskilled trainer can crack his whip at them in vain.
Gerald Brenan
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Businesses are no longer receiving the cost savings from outsourcing that they once did.
Gerald Chertavian
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The cliché is dead poetry. English, being the language of an imaginative race, abounds in clichés, so that English literature is always in danger of being poisoned by its own secretions.
Gerald Brenan
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We should all live as if we were never going to die, for it is the deaths of our friends that hurt us, not our own.
Gerald Brenan
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We soon cease to feel the grief at the deaths of our friends, yet we continue to the end of our lives to miss them. They are still with us in their absence.
Gerald Brenan
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As Coleridge said, We receive but what we give. The happy life is a life of continual generosity in which we go out to meet and acclaim the world.
Gerald Brenan
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Every writer and artist wonders what in the world people of other professions can find to live for.
Gerald Brenan
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The best thing we can do for a young person is to expect a great deal from them.
Gerald Chertavian
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Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.
Gerald Brenan
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One of the marks of a great poet is that he creates his own family of words and teaches them to live together in harmony and to help one another.
Gerald Brenan
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Years ago, as I was beginning my professional career on Wall Street, I volunteered as a Big Brother in New York City.
Gerald Chertavian
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Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death.
Gerald Brenan
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You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.
Gerald Brenan
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One can fall into the soft bigotry of low expectations.
Gerald Chertavian
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It is by sitting down to write every morning that he becomes a writer. Those who do not do this remain amateurs.
Gerald Brenan
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The more we feel sorry for ourselves, the less sorry others will feel for us. People don't waste their small store of sympathy on those who can provide it so richly for themselves.
Gerald Brenan
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Poets and painters are outside the class system, or rather they constitute a special class of their own, like the circus people and the Gypsies.
Gerald Brenan
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Everyone alters and is altered by everyone else. We are all the time taking in portions of one another or else reacting against them, and by these involuntary acquisitions and repulsions modifying our natures.
Gerald Brenan
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I was taught very early on how you treat people is actually what matters.
Gerald Chertavian
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