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Quote by Flannery OConnor
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To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness. – Flannery OConnor

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I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody elses. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that theres no truth. – Flannery OConnor

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Truth
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Flannery OConnor
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When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over Gods business. – Flannery OConnor

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Business
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There is no force like success, and that is why the individual makes all effort to surround himself throughout life with the evidence of it as of the individual, so should it be of the nation. – Marcus Garvey

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Life

Every man regards his own life as the New Years Eve of time. – Jean Paul

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Life

The quality, not the longevity, of ones life is what is important. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Life

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms – in themselves such judgments are stupidities. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Life

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Sometimes in politics, you think youve seen it all. Turns out I was wrong. – Eliot Spitzer

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Modesty and unselfishness – these are virtues which men praise – and pass by. – André Maurois, Ariel, 1924

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Around 93, 94, the conventional wisdom about the Internet was that it was a toy for academics and researchers. So it was very, very underestimated for about two years. – Marc Andreessen

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Confessed faults are half-mended. – Scottish Proverb

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