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“It is a characteristic of pleasure that we can never recognize it to be pleasure till after it is gone.”
Source : Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.60
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“Today's audience knows more about what's on television than what's in life.”
Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges.”
Source : Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1871). “Atlantic Essays”, p.18
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“I don't play with a lot of finesse. I usually play like I'm breaking out of jail!”
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“I typically don't use the distinction 'positive' and 'negative' liberty, because negative sounds bad and positive sounds good, and I don't think that the terminology ought to prejudice us one way or the other. So I think the more descriptive term is 'liberty rights' versus 'welfare rights'. So, liberty rights are freedom-of-action type rights, and welfare rights are rights-to-stuff, of various kinds...And, property rights are not rights-to-stuff. I think that's one of the key misunderstandings about property. Property rights are the rights to liberty within your jurisdiction.”
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“Zimbabweans are so smart and witty and able to weave together tons of situations and experiences into terminologies that are just utterly original.”
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“I love to compete. To me, business is the ultimate sport. It's always on. There is always someone trying to beat me.”
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“People have a right to their own lives, and if you can't help somebody, you ought to get out of their way.”