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776 quotesThe gambling known as business looks with severe disfavor on the business known as gambling.
Gambling
Ambrose Bierce
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I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.
Age and Aging
Josh Billings
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No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.
Possibilities
William Blake
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The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown.
Fame
William Blake
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You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.
Motivation
William Boetcker
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Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.
Pride
Henry Bolingbroke
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From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.
History and Historians
Napoleon Bonaparte
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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.
Failure
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.
The future
Corrie Ten Boom
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Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.
Self-knowledge
Catherine Drinker Bowen
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Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.
Conceit
Elizabeth Bowen
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First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down.
Fear
Ray Bradbury
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Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down
Risk
Ray Bradbury
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You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.
Courage
Ray Bradbury
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The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own.
Losers and Losing
Bill Bradley
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The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.
Self-knowledge
Francis H. Bradley
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Live with integrity, respect the rights of other people, and follow your own bliss.
Integrity
Nathaniel Branden
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Right is its own defense.
Right and Rightness
Bertolt Brecht
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It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance, sweeps away all obstacles.
Obstacles
Claude M. Bristol
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Any established village; could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.
Politicians and Politics
Denis E. Brogan
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The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.
Tyranny
Emily Bronte
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Men are blind in their own cause.
Causes
Heywood Broun
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Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.
Adversity
Les Brown
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The important thing is to concentrate upon what you can do -- by yourself, upon your own initiative.
Responsibility
Harry Browne
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We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.
Death and Dying
Sir Thomas Browne
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun