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False praise is worse than no praise.

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Felix Dennis
Age: 67 †
Born: 1947
Born: May 27
Died: 2014
Died: June 22
Businessperson
Poet
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Kingston
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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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Say to yourself: The world is full of money. Some of it has my name on it. All I have to do is collect it.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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Few things in life are certain except death and being taxed.
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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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I thoroughly object to getting old. If you could let me be 16 again, I'd give you everything I've got and everything I'll ever have.
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I am absolutely convinced that my life was redeemed by poetry.
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Knowing isn't doing doing isn't knowing. Nothing but the knowing and the doing gets it done.
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Having a great idea is simply not enough. The eventual goal is vastly more important than any idea. It is how ideas are implemented that counts in the long run
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'The Week' is my favourite magazine. Everyone from presidents to CEOs of companies love it, politicians, people in the massive charity business in America, in the arts and even more especially in the media.
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America, ladies and gentlemen, has done more for me financially than Britain ever has, or ever could have done.
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Discourse has ended in America. It's all just shouting and ranting and demonization. Do you know how the rest of the world laughs at you guys? Have you got any idea? They're just rocking with laughter night and day.
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Making money is certainly the one addiction I cannot shake.
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