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“Competition is for the competent.”
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“In London I have been by turns poor and rich, hopeful and despondent, successful and down and out, utterly miserable and ecstatically, dizzily happy. I belong to London as each of us can belong to only one place on this earth. And, in the same way, London belongs to me.”
Source : Gertrude Lawrence (1945). “A Star Danced”
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“Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression.”
Source : Speech to McGill University School of Architecture, www.arthurerickson.com. October 21, 2000. 
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“The best leaders are very often the best listeners. They have an open mind. They are not interested in having their own way but in finding the best way.”
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“I think the moment that I'm very proud of is building a business without using animals. And, hopefully, changing people's perception of how you can do luxury fashion.”
Source : Interview with Tim Blanks, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 04, 2012.
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“I heard that someone asked Mother Teresa what was most important in her work. I thought she'd say the Rosary but she said, 'My nuns and I take very good care of ourselves so we can tend to the lepers and do whatever we need to assist.' If you're strong, or at least not hurting, you can inspire others.”
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“Anybody who knew me growing up calls me Vinny.”
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“Nobody gets everything in this life. You decide your priorities and you make your choices. I'd decided long ago that any cake I had would be eaten.”
Source : "Two Much". Book by Donald E. Westlake (Chapter 21), 1975.
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“When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.”
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“How often might a man, after he had jumbled a set of letters in a bag, fling them out upon the ground before they would fall into an exact poem, yea, or so much as make a good discourse in prose? And may not a little book be as easily made by chance as this great volume of the world?”
