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Quote by Jean Genet
The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests an

The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them. – Jean Genet

Other quotes by Jean Genet

There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former are of the same nature as the brutal insensitivity of the latter. – Jean Genet

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Prison
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A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle. – Jean Genet

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great
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I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty – a sunken beauty. – Jean Genet

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Beauty
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I rejected the notion that my race or sex would bar my success in life. – Constance Baker Motley

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Applause waits on success. – Benjamin Franklin

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I think all of us certainly believed the statistics which said that probably 88% chance of mission success and maybe 96% chance of survival. And we were willing to take those odds. – Alan Shepard

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You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself. – Napoleon Hill

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North Americans as a whole need to embrace having clothes altered to their body. I hear it all the time: why do the Europeans always look so good? They have a relationship with their tailor and spend the time and money to make their clothes look their best. – Michael Kors

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I am concerned about how to reverse the process by which a fundamentalist right and a corporate elite were able to seize power in the United States. – Todd Gitlin

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