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In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one st

In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her? – Jessamyn West

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A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself. – Jessamyn West

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Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection the past then lives in your words and you are free. – Jessamyn West

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Why be a man when you can be a success? – Bertolt Brecht

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At this point, I cant say what network would be picking it up, but I know that it would be a success. – Christy Romano

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There is never just one thing that leads to success for anyone. I feel it always a combination of passion, dedication, hard work, and being in the right place at the right time. – Lauren Conrad

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To find someone who will love you through success and failure is to discover how little life has to do with either. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen. – Sean OFaolain

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A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice. – Samuel Johnson

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If your goal is anything but profitability – if its to be big, or to grow fast, or to become a technology leader – youll hit problems. – Michael Porter

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