“ The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative, and the second is disastrous. ”
- Margaret Fontey- Copy
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“ As a 29-year-old, the only thing that I can possibly think is that if I'm still performing at 50, it's because I'll have had disastrous marriages and I have to pay for them. ”
- Robbie Williams- Copy
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“ Government help to business is just as disastrous as government persecution… the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off. ”
- Ayn Rand- Copy
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“ Thinking too much about how you're doing when you're doing is disastrous. ”
- Harvey Penick- Copy
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“ Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. ”
- J. K. Galbraith- Copy
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“ The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness; aggressiveness engenders hostility; hostility engenders fear — a disastrous circle. ”
- Dorothy Thompson- Copy
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“ Truth is eternal, knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them. ”
- Madeleine L’Engle- Copy
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“ Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. ”
- John Kenneth Galbraith- Copy
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“ One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one. ”
- Agatha Christie- Copy
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“ So much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid to the passive sins, such as apathy and laziness, which in the long run can have a more devastating effect. ”
- Eleanor Roosevelt- Copy
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“ It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice. ”
- Jim Morrison- Copy
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“ It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities and disastrous to force them to suppress their specifically female characteristics and abilities by keeping up the pretense that there are no differences between the sexes. ”
- Arianna Stassinopoulos- Copy
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