"Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony."
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"If you doubted your fears instead of doubting your dreams, imagine how much in life you'd accomplish."
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"Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question."
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"A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long."
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"Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves."
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"You can achieve anything if you believe in yourself. But the opposite is also true; without strong self-belief you will not go far."
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"Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly."
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"The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live."
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"Men think it's a women's word. But what it means is that you believe in equality, and if you stand for equality, then you're a feminist. Sorry to tell you. You're a feminist. You're a feminist. That's it."
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"Always have one possibility in mind and that is to go to the top, to be the best. Everything else should just be a means to that end."
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"It's never crowded along the extra mile."
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"My education was interrupted only by my schooling."
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"Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong."
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"As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled."
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"I get angry about things, then go on and work."
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"What I cannot create, I do not understand."
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"It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived—forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward- looking position."
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"The thing most people don't pick up when they become an entrepreneur is that it never ends. It's 24/7."
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"Ultimately, it comes down to taste. It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things that humans have done and then try to bring those things into what you're doing. Picasso had a saying: good artists copy, great artists steal. And we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas, and I think part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians and poets and artists and zoologists and historians who also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world."
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"Happiness is nothing but everyday living seen through a veil."
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