Category: writer
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Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.
Jane Austen
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We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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In ‘Huckleberry Finn,’ I have drawn Tom Blankenship exactly as he was. He was ignorant, unwashed, insufficiently fed; but he had as good a heart as ever any boy had.
Mark Twain
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I vividly remember a conversation I had many years ago in 1974, which marked a turning point in my leadership journey. I was sitting at a Holiday Inn with my friend, Kurt Campmeyer, when he asked me if I had a personal growth plan. I didn’t. In fact, I didn’t even know you were supposed to have one.
John C. Maxwell
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
George Eliot
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One can cite cases of Negroes who opposed emancipation and denounced the abolitionists.
Carter G. Woodson
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The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.
James Baldwin
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When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.
Dale Carnegie
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In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.
George Eliot
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Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.
Paulo Coelho