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• Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1. (Arthur Ashe) [journey/more]
• Nothing more detestable does the earth produce than an ungrateful man. (Decimus Magnus Ausonius) [more]
• The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. (Richard Bach) [more]
• Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order. (Francis Bacon) [speech/more/eloquence/speak]
• The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding. (Francis Bacon) [action/more]
• Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less. (Francis Bacon) [more]
• In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues. (Francis Bacon) [time/more/time]
• Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue. (Francis Bacon) [more/more/more/integrity]
• Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much. (Francis Bacon) [goodwill/more/power]
• Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more. (Francis Bacon) [wings/more]
• A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. (Francis Bacon) [willpower/more]
• There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not keep their suspicions in smother. (Francis Bacon) [more/men/more]
• Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion. (Francis Bacon) [truth/more]
• The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. (Francis Bacon) [ghost/more]
• Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business. (Francis Bacon) [people/more/business]
• What the world really needs is more love and less paper work. (Pearl Bailey) [needs/more/love/paper]
• There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention. (James Baldwin) [more/eyes/eyes/human]
• No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. (James Baldwin) [more]
• The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done. (Arthur James Balfour) [strike/class/more]
• He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming. (Arthur James Balfour) [art/reading/more/art]
• I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can. (Lucille Ball) [think/more]
• If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do. (Lucille Ball) [more/more]
• You see much more of your children once they leave home. (Lucille Ball) [more/housing]
• Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves. (Brigitte Bardot) [women/more/more]
• You must learn day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in. (Ethel Barrymore) [day/day/more/love]
• To endow the writer publicly with a good fleshly body, to reveal that he likes dry white wine and underdone steak, is to make even more miraculous for me, and of a more divine essence, the products of his art. Far from the details of his daily life bringing nearer to me the nature of his inspiration and making it clearer, it is the whole mystical singularity of his condition which the writer emphasizes by such confidences. For I cannot but ascribe to some superhumanly the existence of beings vast enough to wear blue pajamas at the very moment when they manifest themselves as universal conscience. (Roland Barthes) [soul & body/wine/more/more]
• It takes twenty years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy him. ( Baudouin I) [more//war/destroy]
• A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy. (Jean Baudrillard) [more/jealousy]
• If there is a species which is more maltreated than children, then it must be their toys, which they handle in an incredibly off-hand manner. Toys are thus the end point in that long chain in which all the conditions of despotic high-handedness are in play which enchain beings one to another, from one species to another --cruel divinities to their sacrificial victims, from masters to slaves, from adults to children, and from children to their objects. (Jean Baudrillard) [more/point]
• At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are more obscene than if they were dancing naked themselves. (Jean Baudrillard) [women/women/more/dancing]
• There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you. (Jean Baudrillard) [more]

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