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Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your pro

Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession do not run after distinctions and rewards but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty. – Sydney Smith

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Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life let us swear eternal friendship. – Sydney Smith

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A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort. – Sydney Smith

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Beauty opened all the doors it got me things I didnt even know I wanted, and things I certainly didnt deserve. – Janice Dickinson

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That brings me to Dennis Ritchie. Our collaboration has been a thing of beauty. – Ken Thompson

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Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it. – Tom Stoppard

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I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. To me it was meaningless. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sings about the beauty of the work I wasnt doing. – Theodore Bikel

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