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"Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree what an outstanding member of the team you are, how much your contribution has been valued, what massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved."
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"If it weren't for the last minute nothing would get done."
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"And if I talk to him, I'll say something wrong, give something away. I can feel it coming, a betrayal of myself."
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"Niagara ... is the first disappointment in the married life of many Americans who spend their honeymoon there."
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"God alert!" Blackjack yelled. "It's the wine dude!Mr. D sighed in exasperation. "The next person, or horse, who calls me the 'wine dude' will end up in a bottle of Merlot!"
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"I always try to cheer myself up by singing when i get sad. Most of the time, it turns out that my voice is worse than my problems."
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"When you love someone, you don't care that she ate your sandwich. You only hope she found it delicious."
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"Looking for a wife is like fishing; before you go, make sure you don't have a hole in your net."
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"I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly."
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"Using a metaphor in front of a man as unimaginative as Ridcully was like ared flag to a bu... was like putting something very annoying in front ofsomeone who was annoyed by it."
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"You'd be surprised how many people in the modern age no longer fear zombies as much as teletubies."
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"Believe you can and you're halfway there."
Success


"Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering."
Success


"Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time."
Wisdom


"Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground."
Ambition


"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."
Motivation


"Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body."
War


"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood who strives valiantly who errs and comes short again and again who knows the great enthusiasms the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst if he fails at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."
Motivation


"Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty. I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well."
Effort


"Now and then I am asked as to 'what books a statesman should read,' and my answer is, poetry and novels " including short stories under the head of novels."
Education


"Women should have free access to every field of labor which they care to enter, and when their work is as valuable as that of a man it should be paid as highly."
Society
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