Wells Quotes - Page 23

• Freshness is important. If a game is fresh, new, intriguing, challenging, and enchanting, it will sell, and sell well.

  Roberta Williams

  Games, Challenges, Important

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• Only those works which are well-written will pass to posterity: the amount of knowledge, the uniqueness of the facts, even the novelty of the discoveries are no guarantees of immortality ... These things are exterior to a man but style is the man himself.

  Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

  Book, Knowledge, Science

  Discours sur le Style (1753)

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• You might as well baptize a bag of sand as a man, if not done in view of the remission of sins and getting of the Holy Ghost. Baptism by water is but half a baptism, and is good for nothing without the other half-that is, baptism of the Holy Ghost.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Men, Views, Water

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• Principle of "Christian love": it insists upon being well paid in the end.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Christian, Principles, Ends

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• You might as well try to hear without ears or breathe without lungs, as to try to live a Christian life without the Spirit of God in your heart.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Christian, Heart, Trying

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• At the moment I put the bread and wine into those dark hands, once stained with the blood of cannibalism, now stretched out to receive and partake the emblems and seals of the Redeemer's love, I had a foretaste of the joy of glory that well nigh broke my heart to pieces. I shall never taste a deeper bliss, till I gaze on the glorified face of Jesus himself.

  John Gibson Paton

  Jesus, Heart, Wine

  John Gibson Paton (1907). “John G. Paton, missionary to the New Hebrides: An autobiography edited by his brother. New and complete illustrated edition: 1824-1907”

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• But because we accept the sanctity of life, the responsibility that comes with freedom and the supreme sacrifice of Christ expressed so well in the hymn: 'When I survey the wondrous cross on which the Prince of Glory died. My richest gain I count but loss and pour contempt on all my pride.'

  Margaret Thatcher

  Responsibility, Loss, Sacrifice

  Margaret Thatcher (1989). “The revival of Britain: speeches on home and European affairs, 1975-1988”

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• Education - lifelong education for everyone - from toddlers to workers well advanced in their careers - is indeed an excellent investment for individuals and society as a whole.

  Ben Bernanke

  Education, Money, Careers

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• Student loans have been helpful to many. But they offer neither incentive nor assistance to those students who, by reason of family or other obligations, are unable or unwilling to go deeper into debt. ... It is, moreover, only prudent economic and social policy for the public to share part of the costs of the long period of higher education for those whose development is essential to our national economic and social well-being. All of us share in the benefits - all should share in the costs.

  John F. Kennedy

  Education, Money, Long

  "John F. Kennedy: 1961 : containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the president, January 20 to December 31, 1961" by John F. Kennedy, Washington: Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration, 1962.

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• This is about putting education absolutely in the centre of enterprise and then using the traditions of Birmingham to inspire and grow. If you have knowledge and business linked together you will grow well, you go further down the innovative path and actually you create more and more jobs. Those jobs will only be available for people with skills but they will be real sustainable employments. That is how important innovation is.

  Digby Jones, Baron Jones of Birmingham

  Jobs, Real, College

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• If I didn't do this well, I just wouldn't have anything to do... I can't cook, and I'd be a terrible housewife.

  Freddie Mercury

  Music, Housewife, Terrible

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A weak mind sinks under prosperity, as well as under adversity.

  Julius Charles Hare

  Adversity, Mind, Prosperity

  Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare (1861). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed”, p.211

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• Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others concerned with him have done evil! If a man has acted right, he has done well, though along; if wrong, the sanction of all mankind will not justify him.

  Henry Fielding

  Sorry, Men, Evil

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• Theory looks well on paper, but does not amount to anything without practice.

  Josh Billings

  Practice, Doe, Looks

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• There's no weapon that slays its victim so surely (if well aimed) as praise.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Weapons, Praise, Victim

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• Hate always sells well, but for repeat trade and the long pull happiness is sounder merchandise.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Hate, Long, Hatred

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• If you wish me well, do not stand pitying me, but lend me some succour as fast as you can; for pity is but cold comfort when one is up to the chin in water, and within a hair's breadth of starving or drowning.

  Aesop

  Hair, Water, Wish

  Aesop (1850). “Fables of AEsop and others”, p.300, Printed for J.F. and C. Rivington [and 18 others] ...

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• In the beginning, I wanted to enter what was essentially a man's field. I wanted to prove I could do it. Then I found that when I did as well as the men in the field I got more credit for my work because I am a woman, which seems unfair.

  Eugenie Clark

  Men, Credit, Fields

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• The biggest concern with female athletes is they don't naturally compete. And so I think a part of what we do here exceptionally well that separates us from other programs is we train them to compete. So a huge challenge in women's athletics is to get them to compete against their teammates and friends in practice with the same intensity they compete with their bitter rivals. So that's a huge challenge for me, to get the women in practice to go after each other the way you would a rival

  Anson Dorrance

  Volleyball, Athlete, Thinking

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• You have to work hard AND well. There are a lot of people who work hard but not well.

  Jose Mourinho

  Volleyball, Hard Work, People

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• Don't let tobacco companies make the choices for you... they care about their own well-being, not yours

  Wayne Dyer

  Encouragement, Choices, Care

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• The perfect day for quitting is not real. It will never come, so might as well start today

  Samuel Johnson

  Encouragement, Real, Perfect Days

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• Well I'm a-gonna raise a fuss, I'm gonna raise a holler
  About workin' all summer just to try an' earn a dollar
  Everytime I call my baby, to try to get a date
  My boss says, no dice, son, you gotta work late
  Sometimes I wonder what I'm gonna do
  'cause there ain't no cure for the summertime blues.

  Eddie Cochran

  Summer, Baby, Son

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• I want my team to be more detached from the wins and losses and be more focused on doing the little things well. When you focus on getting the win, it can suffocate you, especially during the playoffs when the pressure gets thick.

  Sue Enquist

  Softball, Team, Loss

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• I am a lefty, though I bat right-handed... When I was a kid I pitched, played first, outfield and shortstop as well. Now it's mainly softball with some friends.

  Josh Charles

  Softball, Kids, Firsts

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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