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"There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary."
Brendan Behan
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"Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes."
Oscar Wilde
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"A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was."
Joseph Hall
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"Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind."
Terry Pratchett
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"The caterpillar does all the work but the butterfly gets all the publicity."
George Carlin
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"I'm all in favour of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters."
Frank Lloyd Wright
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"Seventy percent of success in life is showing up."
Woody Allen
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"It is not enough that a man has clearness of vision, and reliance on sincerity, he must also have the art of expression, or he will remain obscure."
George H. Lewes
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"It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper."
Errol Flynn
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"Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble."
John Madden
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"The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character."
Albert Schweitzer
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"Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory."
Arthur Ashe
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"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled."
Richard P. Feynman
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"If you live your life without secrets, the wind will become bored of you and even the trees will stop listening."
Laura Moncur
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"The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all."
Mark Twain
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"Don't believe your own publicity. You can't; you'll start thinking that you're better than you are."
Leif Garrett
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"Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress."
Bruce Barton
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"The rhythm of the weekend, with its birth, its planned gaieties, and its announced end, followed the rhythm of life and was a substitute for it."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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"Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future."
William Wordsworth
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"While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit."
Lewis Carroll
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"Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain."
Lily Tomlin
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"Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy."
Charles Peters
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"Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality."
Nikos Kazantzakis
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"Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief."
Joseph Addison
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"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed."
Carl Jung (1875-1961).
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"Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know."
Jim Rohn, American businessman
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"Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know."
Jim Rohn
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"Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive - and at the same time publicity is its dream."
John Berger, Ways of Seeing, 1980.
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"People don't really care how much you know until they know how much you care."
Mike McNight
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"It is necessary to study these words you have written, for the words have a longer history than you have and say more than you know."
George Oppen, from his daybook.
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