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Business is a combination of war and sport.
Andre Maurois
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People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.
Andre Maurois
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A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
Andre Maurois
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The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
Andre Maurois
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Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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I decided to write the book to open the eyes of the people of how corrupt John D. Rockefeller company was and the unfair ways he used to be successful. I wanted the people to know the truth about the Standard Oil Company.
Ida Tarbell
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Within Easy Company they had made the best friends they had ever had, or would ever have. They were prepared to die for each other more important, they were prepared to kill for each other.
Stephen Ambrose
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Against a dark sky all flowers look like fireworks. There is something strange about them, at once vivid and secret, like flowers traced in fire in the phantasmal garden of a witch.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Tel-Aviv airport is still the only airport in the world where each passenger is met by ten relatives.
George Mikes
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Writers aren't like plumbers. If you're a plumber, you fix one person's boiler in the morning, then you go and fix another in the afternoon. I didn't want to write a book unless I had something new to say - and it was good to live a little in between.
Lucy Hughes-Hallett
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Every man to whom salvation is offered has an inalienable natural right to say 'No, thank you: I prefer to retain my full moral responsibility: it is not good for me to be able to load a scapegoat with my sins: I should be less careful how I committed them if I knew they would cost me nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
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I'll tell you what can make bacon better... nothing.
Chelsea Handler
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The law ... allows rich as well as poor to sleep under bridges.
Anatole France
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Intelligent women always marry fools
Anatole France
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Armenia is dying, but it will survive. The little blood that it still has left is precious blood that will give birth to a heroic generation. A nation that does not want to die, does not die.
Anatole France
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A woman without breasts is like a bed without pillows.
Anatole France
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Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.
Anatole France
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What we call happiness is what we do not know.
Anatole France
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It is not customary to love what one has.
Anatole France
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I do not know any reading more easy, more fascinating, more delightful than a catalogue.
Anatole France
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It is by acts, and not by ideas, that people ensure the bar down the street cannot have a patio.
Anatole France
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The Kingdom of Heaven is a military autocracy and there is no public opinion in it.
Anatole France
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Lack of understanding is a great power. Sometimes it enables men to conquer the world.
Anatole France
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America, where thanks to Congress, there are forty million laws to enforce the Ten Commandments.
Anatole France
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