"To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful."
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"Making love to your wife is like shooting at sitting ducks."
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"In London I have been by turns poor and rich, hopeful and despondent, successful and down and out, utterly miserable and ecstatically, dizzily happy. I belong to London as each of us can belong to only one place on this earth. And, in the same way, London belongs to me."
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"One problem people have is that they lie to themselves. You may think you are more talented then the next guy. Which is exactly what the next guy thinks as well. Rarely is talent enough. You have to find ways to make yourself stand out. You do so by playing to your strengths and making people aware of those strengths. Always remember that no matter how many times you get shot down, you will get smarter, better and you only have to be right once to be successful."
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"People in this day and age are still under the illusion that every woman who is successful must be being controlled by a man... I'm the boss."
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"Running more doesn't do you any good. You've got to be successful more."
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"God will help you be all you can be, but he will never let you be successful at becoming someone else."
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"I still think that's successful, to make 50 bucks a day with your own music."
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"God demands not that I be successful, but that I be faithful."
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"The First Amendment reads more like a dream than a law, and no other nation, so far as I know, has been crazy enough to include such a dream among its fundamental legal documents. I defend it because it has been so successful for two centuries in preserving our freedom and increasing our vitality, knowing that all arguments in support of it are certain to sound absurd."
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"We created a whole lot of millionaires to boot. Businesses did just fine. And you know there are plenty of patriotic, successful Americans all across the country -- I meet them every day -- who'd be willing to make this contribution again because they understand there is such a thing as the common good. They understand that we're in this thing together."
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"I believe that the best measure of whether a nation is going to be successful is whether they are tapping the talents of their women."
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"No matter how much you've done, or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve."
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"Nations are more successful when their women are successful."
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"If we're not there making the argument then the cultural gulf that Republicans try to exploit saying, "Ah, these city slickers: they're all looking down on you, they don't care about you. They're just trying to help out their various special interest constituencies," that argument ends up being successful."
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"We are now at a point where because we in fact have been successful at stopping a number of plots, a threat has evolved. We do see these lone-wolf actors. We do see these encouragements for troubled individuals to pick up a gun and act out of this ideology."
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"On the spectrum of successful politicians, I'm not introverted the way some have been."
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"I think we should all hope for a Russia that is successful, where its people are employed and the economy is growing and they are having good relationships with their neighbors."
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"I think part of the reason that I have been successful, though, despite maybe not always fitting my message into the pre-packaged formulas, is there is this whole other media ecology out there of the Internet and Instagram and memes and talk shows and comedy, and I'm pretty good at that."
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"America ranks 21st when it comes to math education. We rank 25th when it comes to science. We used to be number one in the proportion of college graduates. We now rank ninth. And at an age where knowledge, skills, are the determinant of how successful we're going to be, unless we reverse that we're going to keep slipping behind economically to a lot of other countries."
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