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• How many men I know who are earning dollars aplenty, but who are really earning little of what counts. They are so overwhelmingly engrossed in business that they get nothing from their dollars. The Juggernaut of dollar-making has crushed out of them every capacity for genuine enjoyment, every grace, every unselfish sentiment and instinct.

  B. C. Forbes

  Money, Men, Grace

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• Are soft-hearted people handicapped in business? You have heard a businessman say of someone else, He's all right, but he's too soft-hearted.... To be soft-hearted may be handicapping, in a sense. But on the whole, a soft heart is to be preferred to a hard heart. Hard-hearted, severe, dominating giants sometimes manage to get further and to amass more money. But they get less genuine joy out of life.... It is the hard-boiled employer, not the soft-hearted species, that incites most of our strikes and does most to endanger the harmonious progress of democracy.

  B. C. Forbes

  Heart, People, Joy

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• Investment based on genuine long-term expectations is so difficult today as to be scarcely practicable.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Long, Expectations, Investing

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• A rumor is like a check--never endorse it till you're sure it's genuine.

  Grenville Kleiser

  Rumor, Checks

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• Just as the Romans were the only nation that was truly a nation, so our age is the first genuine age.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Time, Age, Eras

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• To make our position clearer, we may formulate it in another way. Let us call a proposition which records an actual or possible observation an experiential proposition. Then we may say that it is the mark of a genuine factual proposition, not that it should be equivalent to an experiential proposition, or any finite number of experiential propositions, but simply that some experiential propositions can be deduced from it in conjunction with certain other premises without being deducible from those other premises alone.

  A.J. Ayer

  Numbers, Finite Number, May

  "Language, Truth, and Logic" by A.J. Ayer, (p. 20), 1936.

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• The genius is the man who has genuine and deep human relations with others, who does not cut himself off in the search for originality, but who realizes the value of artistic tradition.

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski

  Cutting, Men, Doe

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• An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.

  F. H. Bradley

  Aphorism, Fixed, Impression

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• I didn't really know Kurt that well, but there was a guy I always admired. We didn't spend much time together, but the few times we did spend together, you know, were times I'll always remember. You know, he was a really sweet guy, and a really genuine soul, you know, and an incredibly talented artist.

  Jerry Cantrell

  Sweet, Artist, Remember You

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• The genuine essence of truth never dies.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Truth, Essence, Dies

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History”, p.74

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• The almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land, seems to have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages.

  Washington Irving

  Money, Land, Dollars

  1855 Wolfert's Roost,'The Creole Village'.

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• By a kind of fashionable discipline, the eye is taught to brighten, the lip to smile, and the whole countenance to emanate with the semblance of friendly welcome, while the bosom is unwarmed by a single spark of genuine kindness and good-will.

  Washington Irving

  Kindness, Eye, Discipline

  Washington Irving (1897). “The Works of Washington Irving...: Illustrated”

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• Real love doesn't die. It's the physical body that dies. Genuine, authentic love has no expectations whatsoever; it doesn't even need the physical presence of a person. ... Even when he is dead and buried that part of you that loves the person will always live.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Real, Expectations, Needs

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• Death is so genuine a fact that it excludes falsehoods, or betrays its emptiness; it is a touchstone that proves the gold, and dishonors the baser metal.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Death, Gold, Facts

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2001). “The House of the Seven Gables”, p.367, Applewood Books

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• Folly ends where genuine hope begins.

  William Cowper

  Hope, Ends, Folly

  William Cowper (1872). “Table talk, Truth, Expostulation, Hope, Charity, and other poems”, p.91

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• A silent address is the genuine eloquence of sincerity.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Addresses, Sincerity, Silent

  Oliver Goldsmith (1854). “The works of Oliver Goldsmith. 1: Poetical works; Dramas; The vicar of Wakefield”, p.160

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• Love scenes, if genuine, are indescribable; for to those who have enacted them the most elaborate description seems tame, and to those who have not, the simplest picture seems overdone.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Scene, Description, Simplest

  Louisa May Alcott (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated)”, p.870, Delphi Classics

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• Silence and chaste reserve is woman's genuine praise, and to remain quiet within the house.

  Euripides

  Silence, House, Quiet

  Euripides (1808). “The Tragedies of Euripides”, p.487

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• Genuine simplicity of heart is a healing and cementing principle.

  Edmund Burke

  Healing, Heart, Simplicity

  Edmund Burke, Robert MONTGOMERY (Author of “Satan.”.) (1853). “Edmund Burke: being first principles selected from his writings. With an introductory essay by Robert Montgomery”, p.43

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• The genuine writer cannot ignore the fact that the family is losing its spiritual foundation.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Spiritual, Foundation, Facts

  Isaac Bashevis Singer, Joseph C. Landis (1986). “Aspects of I.B. Singer”

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• Faith, in order to be genuine and of any real value, must be the offspring of that divine love which Jesus manifested when He prayed for His enemies on the cross.

  Hosea Ballou

  Faith, Jesus, Real

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• I have a strong opinion that a genuine love of books is one of the greatest blessings of life for man and woman.

  Sara Coleridge

  Strong, Book, Men

  Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1874). “Memoir and Letters of Sara Coleridge”, p.175

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• When the genuine myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message. You must change your life.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Messages, Consciousness, Changing Your Life

  Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.78, Ultramarine Publishing

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• A handwritten, personal letter has become a genuine modern-day luxury, like a child's pony ride.

  Shana Alexander

  Children, Luxury, Ponies

  Shana Alexander (1970). “The feminine eye”, McCall Pub. Co

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• A Finnan haddock has a relish of a peculiar and delicate flavour, inimitable on any other coast than that of Aberdeenshire. Some of our Edinburgh philosophers tried to produce their equal in vain. I was one of a party at dinner where the philosophical haddocks were placed in competition with the genuine Finnan fish. These were served round without distinguishing whence they came; but only one gentleman out of twelve present espoused the cause of philosophy.

  Walter Scott

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Party

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