"If you're in business it's both a promise and a warning. It says that sometimes little things can cause some little guy to have an overnight success."
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"There is a proverbial saying chiefly concerned with warning against too closely calculating the numerical value of un-hatched chicks."
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"Certainly, it is more reasonable to devote one's life to women than to postage stamps or old snuff-boxes, even to pictures or statues. But the example of other collections should be a warning to us to diversify, to have not one woman only but several."
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"It was unfair that people could pretend to be one thing when they were really something else. That they would get you on their side and then do nothing but fail, and fail, and fail again. People should come with warnings, like cigarette packs: involvement would kill you over time."
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"The extreme delight we experience in talking about ourselves should warn us that those who listen do not share it."
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"I must ... warn my readers that my attacks are directed against themselves, not against my stage figures."
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"Once more there sounded within me the terrible warning that there is only one life for all men, that there is only one life for all men, that there is no other and that all that can be enjoyed must be enjoyed here. In eternity no other chance will be given to us."
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"If some band sucks, you're going to have to find out about it for yourself, because I don't have the interest in issuing warnings."
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"I thought you'd gotten over your whoring when you left him, Catherine, but it seems you only postponed it." Bones' face turned to stone, and he answered her even before I could snap out an indignant response. "Don't you ever speak to her that way again." There was pure warning in the whip of his words. "You can call me any name you like and more, but I will not stand by while you slander her out of your own ignorance."
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"It seemed incredible that this day, a day without warnings or omens, might be that of my implacable death."
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"God is gracious to always give a warning before He sends judgment."
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