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The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.


Gertrude Stein

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[with credit to Gertrude Stein]
ERNEST HEMINGWAY good luck’ follows careful preparation; ‘bad luck’ comes from sloppiness.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The one thing we know today is we can't continue to do business the way we have in the past.
BUD SELIG He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
ANNE CARSON Every now and then, I strike something that just goes click, you know, in my head. As Gertrude Stein...
JAMES LAUGHLIN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Love is the one thing in life that makes everything worthwhile.
CARRIE ANN INABA Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almight...
HAROLD HOLZER Change is the one thing we can be sure of.
NAOMI JUDD The one thing that matters is the effort.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. I think one is naturally impressed by anything having a beginning a middle and an ending when one is...
GERTRUDE STEIN Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. They listen so mu...
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GERTRUDE STEIN All believers are members of the same body and should be viewed and treated that way.
HENRY HON The one thing I've learned is that stuttering in public is never as bad as I fear it will be.
JOHN STOSSEL We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed...
JOHN H. GROBERG The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a...
JEANETTE CORON She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
IN THE MAKING The one thing you can control is effort.
MALIK JACKSON Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.
FREYA STARK The one thing you can't do when you're highly ranked is relax.
WILLIAM FLOYD She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word.
DIANA WYNNE JONES The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a...
NEIL GAIMAN What is the Other?" they ask.
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PAULO COELHO Life begins somewhere and ends somewhere with time but to get somewhere with the life you have depen...
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MANDY HALE Gertrude Stein -- as a lesbian, a Jew, an exile (and) a woman -- was someone who was indomitable in ...
FRANK GALATI I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you r...
MANDY HALE Look, my friends!' he called. 'Here's a pretty hobbit-skin to wrap an elven princeling in! If it wer...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN There is no greater glory than to die for love.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nasti...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. S...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON The kind of stillness of being nothing, and doing things from that emptiness, make one strong.
SHASHI The things i know now, i never knew then. I wish i knew.
SOTONYE ANGA There is no thing known as bad luck. There is luck, or no luck at all.
JEFFREY FRY Hail to you gods, on that day of the great reckoning. Behold me, I have come to you, without sin, wi...
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S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. Here was one with an air of high nobility such as Aragorn at times revealed, less high perhaps, yet ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN The one thing I will never do is become pigeonholed.
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QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and...
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J.R.R. TOLKIEN There is no such thing as objectivity. We are all just interpreting signals from the universe and tr...
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BEN STEIN Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child's tears, is child ...
BEN STEIN Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement...
BEN STEIN To provide a welcoming path to citizenship for immigrants and to restore our civil liberties, our fo...
JILL STEIN Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger u...
BEN STEIN A corporation's responsibility is to the shareholders, not its retirees and employees. Companies are...
BEN STEIN If you can't stand the heat, don't go to Cancun in the summer.
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