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"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times it ws the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair we had everything before us, we had nothing before us we were all going directly to Heaven, we were all going the other way." »Charles Dickens
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"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all doing direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only." »Charles Dickens
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"The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next." »Cyril Connolly
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"Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy." »Howard Newton
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"Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy." »Unknown
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"It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice. I consider the real vice is making losses." »Winston Churchill
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"By a peculiar prerogative, not only each individual is making daily advances in the sciences, and may makes advances in morality, but all mankind together are making a continual progress in proportion as the universe grows older; so that the whole human race, during the course of so many ages, may be considered as one man, who never ceases to live and learn." »Blaise Pascal
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"We can forgive a man for making a useful thing, as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless." »Oscar Wilde
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"We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless." »Oscar Wilde, A Picture of Dorian Grey - Preface
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"A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood." »William Shenstone
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"General Napoleon says that ‘Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.’ Well, I suggest doing the opposite: Interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. Don’t be opportunist; don’t benefit from the weakness of your enemy! Be just even to your enemy! Try to find a way to defeat him without harming him; prove to be as intelligent as to find such a way! Only then, your victory will be meaningful and honourable!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Making the simple complicated is commonplace making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity." »Charles Mingu
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"'We were making the future,' he said, and hardly any of us troubled to think what future we were making. And here it is'." »H. G. Wells
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"Always afraid of making mistakes, always afraid of making wrong decisions, always trying to be perfect; fact is no one is perfect, and the best lessons derive from the mistakes and the wrong decisions we make. Don't be afraid of mistakes, and never regret the decisions you make; use them as a life lesson, and build on them." »Andrew M. Dixon
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"A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg." »Samuel Butler
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"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." »Frank Zappa
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"Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons." »Walt Whitman
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"Life is what happens while you are making other plans." »John Lennon
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"Life is what happens to you when you're making other plans." »Betty Talmadge
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""I'm making some changes in my life. If your don't hear back from me, you're one of them."" »Tom Zegan
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"Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies." »Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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"A mentor's value is not always born by being right but by making you think twice or maybe thrice." »Chase LeBlanc
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"If I am not making music, I have no reason for existing." »Claude Debussy
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"The multitude of books is making us ignorant." »Voltaire
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"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." »Napoleon Bonaparte
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"Engineering is the art or science of making practical." »Samuel C. Florman
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"The man who stops making new friends eventually will have none." »James Boswell
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"One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake." »Anton Chekhov
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"People who are always making allowances for themselves soon go bankrupt." »Mary Pettibone Poole
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"An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind." »Mahatma Gandhi
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