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"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts." »Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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"Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it; write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it." »Jesse Stuart
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"Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it." »Jesse Stuart
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"A clever man commits no minor blunders." »Johann von Goethe
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"Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue." »Ambrose Bierce
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"A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles." »Mignon McLaughlin
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"Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four." »Katharine Hepburn
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"Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high- class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four." »Katharine Hepburn
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"The man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away." »Charles Schwab
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"My father used to say, 'Let them see you and not the suit. That should be secondary.'" »Cary Grant
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"No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit." »Sir Frederick G. Banting
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"He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away." »Raymond Hull
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"Toughness doesn't have to come in a pinstriped suit." »Senator Dianne Feinstein
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"Absence lessens the minor passions and increases the great ones, as the wind douses a candle and kindles a fire." »La Rochefoucauld
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"We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special." »Stephen Hawking
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"Art may make a suit of clothes: but nature must produce a man." »David Hume
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"Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people." »F. M. Hubbard
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"Art may make a suit of clothes but nature must produce a man." »David Hume
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"Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then." »Katharine Hepburn
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"Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should just live next door and just visit now and then." »Katharine Hepburn
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"Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures." »Vince Lombardi
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"Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives." »Marilyn Ferguson
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"Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it." »Maurice Chevalier
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"I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball." »Pete Rose
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"Give a man religion without reminding him of his filth, and the result will be arrogance in a three- piece suit. Max Lucado" »Max Lucado, The Applause of Heaven
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"A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones." »Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
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"Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - the great nature cannot so live, he is never really in holiday mood, even though he often plucks flowers by the wayside and ties them into knots and garlands like little children and lays out on a sunny morning." »W. B. Yeats
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"Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself." »Truman Capote
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"The little dictator who went to Moscow in his green fatigues to receive a bear hug did not forsake the doctrine of Lenin when he returned to the West and appeared in a two-piece suit. (On Daniel Ortega Saavedra)" »Ronald Reagan
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"When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature." »Sigmund Freud
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