Quotes for JJ Flashcards

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Failure - Truman Capote (American novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, playwright, and actor. Wrote Breakfast in Tiffany)

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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavour

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Failure - Quentin Crisp (English writer, raconteur and actor).

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If at first you don’r succed, failure may be your style

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Failure - George Bernard Shaw

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When I was young man, I observed that 9 out 10 things I did were failures. I didnt want to be a falure so I did ten times more work.

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Fame - Napolean Bonaparte

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Success is fleeting but obscurity is forever

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Fame - Van Morrison (Sir George Ivan “Van” Morrison is a Northern Irish singer-songwriter, instrumentalist and record producer).

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Fame is a figment of everyone elses imagination

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Father - William Busch (British Composer)

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It is easy to become a father but very difficut to be a father

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Fear - Marie Curie

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

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Fear - Betty Bender (American Author)

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Anything I have ever done that was worthwhile, initially scared me to death.

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About Life - John Lennon

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Life is what happens when you are busy making other plans.

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Work - Winston Churchill

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So the bottom line was I had to expect I’d be fighting on two fronts – a reminder of Churchill’s apocryphal advice to a young man who asked whether the ‘enemy’ was over on the Labour benches. ‘No,’ the great man gravely observed, ‘that’s the opposition; the enemy is behind us

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