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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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«Construed as turf, home just seems a provisional claim, a designation you make upon a place, not one it makes on you. A certain set of buildings, a glimpsed, smudged window-view across a schoolyard, a musty aroma sniffed behind a garage when you were a child, all of which come crowding in upon your latter-day senses / those are pungent things and vivid, even consoling. But to me they are also inert and nostalgic and unlikely to connect you to the real, to that essence art can sometimes achieve, which is permanence.»
Author: Richard Ford
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«I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion»
«There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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«To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
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«The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.»
«Whither, O splendid ship, thy white sails crowding, / Leaning across the bosom of the urgent West.»
«When I'm not in my right mind, my left mind gets pretty crowded»
Author: Stephen Wright
(Actor, Writer)
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«The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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«It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinions; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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