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I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.


Edith Sitwell


#am #busy #cultivate #had #i

Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels.


John Sladek


#collections #disguised #most #novels #often

Often doctors didn't even tell you what was wrong with you. They just treated you, and sent you home.


Rebecca Skloot


#even #home #just #often #sent

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.


Grace Slick


#big #get #how #matter #out

There are many men - such as those often to be found among the Indians - who are refined until they have qualities often attributed to the female sex. Yet they are men, and strong ones.


Agnes Smedley


#attributed #female #found #indians #many

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.


Samuel Smiles


#being #capable #desires #intense #into

The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.


Samuel Smiles


#difficulty #discoveries #established #great #greatest

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.


Samuel Smiles


#discovery #failure #finding #learn #made

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.


Samuel Smiles


#actual life #books #experience #gained #gathered

I still think in this country, and this might surprise you, the one thing that George Bush said as president that I do agree with, I love that phrase, 'the soft bigotry of low expectations.'


Tavis Smiley


#bush #country #expectations #george #george bush






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