"She didn't know it couldn't be done, so she went ahead and did it."

Almanac, Mary S. on possibilities
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"Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful."

Ziglar, Zig on adversity
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"Macho doesn't prove mucho."

Gabor, Zsa Zsa on men
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"Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization."

Churchill, Winston on democracy
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"It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right."

Churchill, Winston on honesty
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"I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house."

Gabor, Zsa Zsa on divorce
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"It's not the having, it's the getting."

Taylor, Elizabeth on achievement
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"Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time."

Pirandello, Luigi on gentlemen
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"With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half."

Bismarck, Otto Von on behavior   

"Perfect soldier, perfect gentleman never gave offence to anyone not even the enemy."

Taylor, A. J. P. on generals   

"The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond; and sometimes better."

Dickens, Charles on gentlemen
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"I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together."

Dickens, Charles on gentlemen
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"The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him."

Phelps, William Lyon on gentlemen
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"Anyone can be polite to a king. It takes a gentleman to be polite to a beggar."

Unknown, Source on manners   

"I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead -- not sick, not wounded -- dead."

Allen, Woody on food and eating
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"More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly."

Allen, Woody on history and historians
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"In Beverly Hills... they don't throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows."

Allen, Woody on hollywood
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"Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it."

Allen, Woody on love
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"If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job."

Allen, Woody on movies
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"I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens."

Allen, Woody on death
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"I think being funny is not anyone's first choice."

Allen, Woody on comedy and comedians
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"Man consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body has more fun."

Allen, Woody on body
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"I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear."

Allen, Woody on death
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"If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank."

Allen, Woody on skepticism
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"A Bay Area Bisexual told me I didn't quite coincide with either of her desires."

Allen, Woody on sex
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"Sex is the most fun you can have without laughing."

Allen, Woody on sex
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"I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years."

Buffett, Warren on money
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"Everyone is always in favor of general economy and particular expenditure."

Eden, Sir Anthony on economy and economics   

"The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters."

Kauffmann, Jean-Paul on economy and economics   

"Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy."

Half, Robert on talent
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"For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again. [Proverbs 24:16]"

Bible on perseverance
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"Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once."

Shakespeare, William on war
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"On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world."

Thoreau, Henry David on bereavement   

"As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness."

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus on death
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"It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter, because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the ordinary."

Bailey, David on photography
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"Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure."

Benn, Tony on photography
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"The magic of photography is metaphysical. What you see in the photograph isn't what you saw at the time. The real skill of photography is organized visual lying."

Donovan, Terence on photography   

"Life itself is a quotation."

Borges, Jorge Luis on quotations
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"Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts."

Mandela, Nelson on negotiation   

"Most people would rather die than think: many do."

Russell, Bertrand on death
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