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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.
Felix Dennis
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Felix Dennis
Age: 67 †
Born: 1947
Born: May 27
Died: 2014
Died: June 22
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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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You shouldn't go around the world behaving ruthlessly when you don't have to. Sometimes you do have to. There is only so much pie to go around. If you're going to take more than your fair share of pie, as socialists would look at it, then someone else is not getting his. That means you've got to take it away from them.
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False praise is worse than no praise.
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Without self belief nothing can be accomplished. With it, nothing is impossible.
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You'll never get rich by working for your boss.
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When I was young I wanted to be the greatest blues singer of all time. I wrecked my education and left home for it.
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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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Good ideas are like Nike sports shoes. They may facilitate success for an athlete who possesses them, but on their own they are nothing but an overpriced pair of sneakers. Sports shoes don't win races. Athletes do.
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Poetry is one of the oldest of all art forms, and one of its powers for shamans and tribal leaders was the mnemonic.
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Sometimes, to ensure that a talented individual will work for you, or will stay working with you, you need to be flexible. Money is not always the great motivator here. Talented people want a good salary, of course, but surprisingly often they are more attracted to new opportunities and challenges.
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If you are unwilling to fail, sometimes publicly and even catastrophically, you will never be rich.
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America is not the center of the universe.
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I am absolutely convinced that my life was redeemed by poetry.
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Few things in life are certain except death and being taxed.
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