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«Four short words sum up what has lifted most successful individuals above the crowd: a little bit more. They did all that was expected of them and a little bit more.»
Author: A. Lou Vickery
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«Edward VIII replaced his fly buttons with a zip, a revolutionary move; and his Fair Isle pullovers, shorts and Windsor knots were considered by some to foreshadow the end of Empire.»
Author: Angus McGill
| Keywords:
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«Before the first World War women were arrested for smoking cigarettes in public, for using profanity, for appearing on beaches without stockings, for driving automobiles without a man beside them, for wearing outlandish attire (for example, shorts, s»
Author: Geoffrey Perrett
| Keywords:
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«I would show up for work and look at the pairs of tight, shiny shorts or jeans that made up our 54 wardrobe and wonder if we were making Showgirls...»
«It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.»
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
(President)
| About:
Action,
Ambition,
Courage,
Criticism,
Willpower
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«It is a point of pride for the American male to keep the same size jockey shorts for his entire life.»
«By golly, life's too darn short to waste time trying to please every meddlesome moron who's got an idea how I ought to be! I don't need advice! Everyone can just stay out of my face!»
Author: Bill Watterson
(Author)
| Keywords:
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«Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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