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• As the pleasures of the body are the ones which we most often meet with, and as all men are capable of these, these have usurped the family title; and some men think these are the only pleasures that exist, because they are the only ones which they know.

  Aristotle

  Men, Thinking, Body

  Aristotle (1934). “The Nicomachean ethics”

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• The making of miracles to edification was as ardently admired by pious Victorians as it was sternly discouraged by Jesus of Nazareth. Not that the Victorians were unique in this respect. Modern writers also indulge in edifying miracles though they generally prefer to use them to procure unhappy endings, by which piece of thaumaturgy they win the title of realists.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Jesus, Winning, Unique

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2015). “The Mind of the Maker”, p.58, Open Road Media

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• Each generation has its own rendezvous with the land, for despite our fee titles and claims of ownership, we are all brief tenants on this planet. By choice, or by default, we will carve out a land legacy for our heirs.

  Stewart Udall

  Land, Choices, Legacy

  Stewart L. Udall (1963). “The Quiet Crisis”

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• At Liverpool, I had almost everything but titles. I felt like a king, but the team was falling apart.

  Fernando Torres

  Kings, Team, Fall

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• The most underrated player in NBA history is Dominique Wilkins. Right behind him is Gary Payton. He never has gotten the respect he deserves. If he doesn't spend the rest of his days in Seattle, I hope he goes someplace where he has a chance to win a title.

  Charles Barkley

  Winning, Player, Nba

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• In all honesty, titles are an embarrassment to me.

  Edgar Meyer

  Honesty, Embarrassment

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• Whereas the property-owning middle class could win freedom for themselves on the basis of rights to property--thus excluding others from the freedom they gain--the property-less working class possess nothing but their title as human beings. Thus they can liberate themselves only by liberating all humanity.

  Peter Singer

  Winning, Rights, Class

  Peter Singer (2000). “Marx: A Very Short Introduction”, p.30, Oxford Paperbacks

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• The traditional metaphor for careers is a ladder, but I no longer think that metaphor holds. It just doesn’t make sense in a less hierarchical world... Build your skills, not your resume. Evaluate what you can do, not the title they’re going to give you. Do real work. Take a sales quota, a line role, an ops job. Don’t plan too much, and don’t expect a direct climb. If I had mapped out my career when I was sitting where you are, I would have missed my career.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Jobs, Real, Thinking

  Sheryl Sandberg's Speech on Harvard Business School Class Day in Cambridge, Massachusetts., www.huffingtonpost.com. May 30, 2017.

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• Leadership is not about a title or a designation. It's about impact, influence and inspiration. Impact involves getting results, influence is about spreading the passion you have for your work, and you have to inspire team-mates and customers.

  Robin Sharma

  Team, Inspiration, Passion

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• Basically, to lead without a title is to derive your power within the organisation not from your position but from your competence, effectiveness, relationships, excellence, innovation and ethics.

  Robin Sharma

  Effectiveness, Innovation, Excellence

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• Who is an artist? I say we take a title. No one gives it to us. We make our lives.

  Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

  Artist, Giving, Our Lives

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• I am no longer a divine biped. I am no longer the freest German after Goethe, as Ruge named me in healthier days. I am no longer the great hero No. 2, who was compared with the grape-crowned Dionysius, whilst my colleague No. 1 enjoyed the title of a Grand Ducal Weimarian Jupiter. I am no longer a joyous, somewhat corpulent Hellenist, laughing cheerfully down upon the melancholy Nazarenes. I am now a poor fatally-ill Jew, an emaciated picture of woe, an unhappy man.

  Heinrich Heine

  Hero, Men, Laughing

  Heinrich Heine (2016). “Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine”, p.12, The Floating Press

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• We have demonstrated that we are the best, I'm also happy because everyone seems to enjoy our football, whether or not they are Barca fans. All over the world, I've heard people saying that they have been enchanted by us. This type of football deserves to be rewarded with titles.

  Lionel Messi

  Soccer, Football, People

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• I come from a world where accountability and accomplishments matter, and where titles and rhetoric take a back seat to results.

  Carly Fiorina

  Accomplishment, Accountability, World

  "Carly Fiorina, the other woman". Interview with Glenn Harlan Reynolds, www.usatoday.com. July 19, 2015.

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• I'm probably the only guy in hockey who can win a scoring title and everybody is saying I had a bad year. I don't worry about it.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Hockey, Winning, Years

  "Q&A WITH Wayne Gretzky : He's on the Ice, Feeling Fit Again : Hockey: His back is sound and the Kings are getting better. And people who say he's the Average One motivate him to continued greatness". Interview with Steve Springer, articles.latimes.com. September 13, 1990.

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• Al Plastino helped redefine Superman in the 1950s. His work on Supermans Girlfriend, Lois Lane, Adventure Comics and pretty much any title in the Superman family will be fondly remembered for years to come. He will be missed.

  Jim Lee

  Girlfriend, Adventure, Years

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• I take the definition and title of my job - Representative - seriously. Thats what I will be above and beyond everything else.

  Grace Meng

  Jobs, Definitions, Above And Beyond

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• I'd love to claim the title of 'songwriter' or 'intellectual,' but the truth is that anything that I ever learned how to do in conjunction with music was purely so that I would have a platform to sing from.

  Brandi Carlile

  Intellectual, Truth Is, Claims

  "Interrogating Brandi Carlile: I Knew ‘That Wasn’t Me’ Was Our‘Let It Be.’". Interview with Jesse Kornbluth, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 24, 2012.

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• The poem began with the title. Then I was annoyed by one of the occasional poetry-is-dead articles. Then I refute that notion.

  Thomas Lux

  Annoyed, Occasional, Notion

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• The glittering baits of titles and honours are only for children and fools.

  Jane Welsh Carlyle

  Children, Fool, Bait

  Jane Welsh Carlyle (1977). “I Too Am Here: Selections from the Letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle”, p.40, Cambridge University Press

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• I hope for so much from every book I read. And time and again, I find myself disappointed. I look across my bookshelves and see hundreds of titles which in my memory seem merely mediocre or second-rate. Only occasionally does a novel appear for which I feel a lasting passion, a book that I think could in time become a classic.

  John Boyne

  Memories, Book, Passion

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• I find coming up with a title the hardest part of writing a novel.

  Sara Shepard

  Writing, Novel, Hardest

  "A Conversation with Sara Shepard, Author of The Visibles". Simon & Schuster Interview, www.simonandschuster.com.

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• The attempts to command the climate and decide about the temperature on our planet are wrong and arrogant. I wrote a book about it which was published in English under the title “Blue Planet in Green Shackles.”

  Vaclav Klaus

  Book, Blue, Green

  "DECKER: 5 Questions with President Vaclav Klaus". Interview with Brett M. Decker, www.washingtontimes.com. September 25, 2012.

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• I get called all kinds of things - an investigative comedian, a comedian activist - I've lost track of what my job title is.

  Mark Thomas

  Jobs, Track, Comedian

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• Science is a victim of its own reductive metaphors: 'Big Bang,' 'selfish gene' and so on. Richard Dawkins' selfish gene fitted with the Thatcherite politics of the time. It should actually be the 'altruistic gene,' but he'd never have sold as many books with a title like that.

  Charles Jencks

  Selfish, Book, Bangs

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