Category: writer
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People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
Peter Drucker
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It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.
Albert Camus
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Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn’t have it and thought of other things if you did.
James Baldwin
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The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
Honore de Balzac
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Everybody’s youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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I walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: ‘Oh my God, what a blessing.’ Then you realise it’s important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe.
Paulo Coelho
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We are rarely proud when we are alone.
Voltaire