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Quote by Benjamin Disraeli
When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retir

When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world. – Benjamin Disraeli

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Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress. – Benjamin Disraeli

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inspirational
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Benjamin Disraeli
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Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger. – Benjamin Disraeli

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Fear
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Perseverance and tact are the two great qualities most valuable for all those who would climb, but especially for those who have to step out of the crowd. – Benjamin Disraeli

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Tact, Tactfulness
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Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause, an ideal, a mission and the like is largely a search for a plot and a pattern in the development of his life story — a story that is basically without meaning or pattern. – Eric Hoffer

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It is said that the first storyteller crept at night to listen to the gods talking in their sleep — so each tale collected contained the breath of gods. – Author unknown

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A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled. – Raymond Chandler

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Storytelling

Stories give color to black and white information. – Todd Stocker

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Ive worked very hard in this book to keep the lines of communication open. I dont want to turn someone away from this information for partisan political reasons. – Jared Diamond

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