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Quote by Jean Anouilh
To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge

To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no. – Jean Anouilh

Other quotes by Jean Anouilh

We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down. – Jean Anouilh

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Fear
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Jean Anouilh
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Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed. – Jean Anouilh

Category:
power
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Jean Anouilh
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Other Quotes from
Miscellaneous
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The chief characteristics of the [liberal] attitude are human sympathy, a receptivity to change, and a scientific willingness to follow reason rather than faith. – Chester Bowles, New Republic, 22 July 1946

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Miscellaneous

The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously. – Hubert Humphrey, speech, Madison, Wisconsin, 23 August 1965

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Miscellaneous

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Miscellaneous

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. – Benjamin Franklin (Thank you, Kyle.)

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Miscellaneous

Random Quotes

Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow. – William Blake

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Imagination

You change with the guys you date. – Jessica Simpson

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Change

It is the fancy of every mortal that being cradled in the arms of mortality is a safe place for the time being. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Category:
Humankind

I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if youre well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think theyre used to seeing me walking around, so I dont think Im a very big deal. – J. K. Rowling

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respect