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You don't resign from these jobs, you escape from them.
Hollywood
Dawn Steel

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A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.
Age and Aging
Sir Richard Steele

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Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.
Gossip
Sir Richard Steele

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I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him.
Flattery
Sir Richard Steele

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It is to be noted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it.
Dullness
Sir Richard Steele

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Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.
Modesty
Sir Richard Steele

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Praise from an enemy is the most pleasing of all commendations.
Praise
Sir Richard Steele

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Simplicity of all things is the hardest to be copy.
Imitation
Sir Richard Steele

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The fool within himself is the object of pity, until he is flattered.
Fools and Foolishness
Sir Richard Steele

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The insupportable labor of doing nothing.
Idleness
Sir Richard Steele

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To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
Beauty
Sir Richard Steele

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To succeed at the level I want to you have to be focused and serious.
Focus
Kent Steffes

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Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.
Planning
Ben Stein

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The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.
Happiness
Ben Stein

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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
Communism and Socialism
Gertrude Stein

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Everybody gets so much common information all day long that they lose their common sense.
Common Sense
Gertrude Stein

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I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
Desire
Gertrude Stein

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Let me listen to myself and not to them.
Self-sufficiency
Gertrude Stein

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Money is always there but the pockets change.
Money
Gertrude Stein

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What is the answer? [Silence] In that case, what is the question?
Famous Last Words
Gertrude Stein

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A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
Travel and Tourism
John Steinbeck

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The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.
Writers and Writing
John Steinbeck

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The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.
Writers and Writing
John Steinbeck

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Time is the only critic without ambition.
Time and Time Management
John Steinbeck

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Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.
Critics and Criticism
John Steinbeck

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun