"Working hard may not make you rich, but it should make you successful."
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"Sometimes you hear a person speak the truth and you know that they are speaking the truth. But you also know that they have not heard themselves, do not know what they have said: do not know that they have revealed much more than they have said. This may be why the truth remains, on the whole, so rare."
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"Women manage, quite brilliantly, on the whole, and to stunning and unforeseeable effect, to survive and surmount being defined by others. They dismiss the definition, however dangerous or wounding it may be-- or even, sometimes, find a way to utilize it."
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"James Joyce is right about history being a nightmare-- but it may be that nightmare from which no one can awaken. People are trapped in history and history in trapped in them."
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"No company can afford not to move forward. It may be at the top of the heap today but at the bottom of the heap tomorrow, if it doesn't"
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"The medical profession (is) a conspiracy to hide its own shortcomings. No doubt the same may be said of all professions. They are all conspiracies against the laity... (U)ntil there is a practicable alternative to blind trust in the doctor, the truth about the doctor is so terrible that we dare not face it."
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"In truth , mankind cannot be saved from without, by schoolmasters or any other sort of masters: it can only be lamed and enslaved by them. It is said that if you wash a cat it will never again wash itself. This may or may not be true : what is certain is that if you teach a man anything he will never learn it; and if you cure him of a disease he will be unable to cure himself the next time it attacks him."
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"God's trustiest lieutenants often lack official credentials. They may be professed atheists who are also men of honour and high public spirit."
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"Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes."
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"If I refuse to allow my leg to be amputated, its mortification and my death may prove that I was wrong; but if I let the leg go, nobody can ever prove that it would not have mortified had I been obstinate. Operation is therefore the safe side for the surgeon as well as the lucrative side."
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"If ever I utter an oath again may my soul be blasted to eternal damnation!"
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"You may well ask me why...I took the time to write [books]. I can only reply that I do not know. There was no why about it. I had to: that was all."
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"If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman, he may pronounce as he pleases."
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"May you all make it to a healthy 100 and a half!!"
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"Whatever may be the success of my stories, I shall be resolute in preserving my incognito, having observed that a nom de plume secures all the advantages without the disagreeables of reputation."
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"Obligation may be stretched till it is no better than a brand of slavery stamped on us when we were too young to know its meaning."
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"There's things to put up wi' in ivery place, an' you may change an' change an' not better yourself when all's said an' done."
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"Unwonted circumstances may make us all rather unlike ourselves: there are conditions under which the most majestic person is obliged to sneeze, and our emotions are liable to be acted on in the same incongruous manner."
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"When the animals entered the Ark in pairs, one may imagine that allied species made much private remark on each other, and were tempted to think that so many forms feeding on the same store of fodder were eminently superfluous, as tending to diminish the rations."
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"But, bless us, things may be lovable that are not altogether handsome, I hope?"
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