"Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared......................
than a thousand bayonets."
Napoleon
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"Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared......................
than a thousand bayonets."
Napoleon
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"The greater the difficulty, ..................................
the more the glory in surmounting it."
Epicurus
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"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice;..................
it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."
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"What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain ...................
which we call 'thought'."
Hume
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"You must be the change ....................................
you wish to see in the world."
Mahatma Gandhi
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"Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, ........................
or we know where we can find information upon it."
Samuel Johnson
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"I made my money by selling too soon."
Bernard Baruch
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"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow ....................
by evading it today."
Abraham Lincoln
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"To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, .............................
is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another."
Benjamin Jowett
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"What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print."
Isadora Duncan, My Life
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"Those who stand for nothing ..............................
fall for anything."
Alexander Hamilton
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"Every man has his follies......................................
and often they are the most interesting thing he has got."
Josh Billings
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When I see this thread, I need to spend much time to think what is the meaning due to my poor english.Originally Posted by Chris Ryser
What are the follies he mean ?
This should help.
fol·ly
A lack of good sense, understanding, or foresight.
An act or instance of foolishness: regretted the follies of his youth.
A costly undertaking having an absurd or ruinous outcome.
"Always laugh when you can. It is a cheap medicine"
Lord Byron
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Originally Posted by hcjilson
It's relative.
For woman, watching soccer is wasting time, for me, I enjoy watching it.
For woman, setting up a business is dangerous and need to take a high risk, for me, it's a chance to learn more and get more what I cant get when I was employee
I think it's also true if the sentence become Every woman has her follies......................................
and often they are the most interesting thing she has got."
Sorry to talk so more about this.
"I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; .............................
what I can say is they must change if they are to get better."
G. C. Lichtenberg
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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; ..................................
that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
-Henry David Thoreau, Walden (chapter 18)
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"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. ..........................................
It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't."
Anatole France
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition ....................
from mediocre minds."
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"The hardest thing in life is to know ....................................
which bridge to cross and which to burn."
David Russell
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"Success always occurs in private, ....................................
and failure in full view."
Anon.
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"Surfing on the Internet is like sex; everyone boasts about doing more than they actually do. ..................................
But in the case of the Internet, it's a lot more."
Tom Fasulo
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"Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. ...........................,
Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people. "
Lee Iacocca
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Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do.
Attitude determines how well you do it.
Lou Holtz
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Promise is the capacity for letting people down.
Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise, 1938
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