"Failure makes success so much sweeter, and allows you to thumb your nose at the crowds."

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Source : Interview for Live magazine, the Mail on Sunday (UK) newspaper, December 5, 2010.

Wilbur Smith

#Failure Quotes #Thumbs Quotes #Crowds Quotes

“At bottom, textual criticism for virtually all other ancient literature relies on creative conjectures, or imaginative guesses, at reconstructing the wording of the original. Not so with the New Testament.”
“In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.”
“Trust is almost always conditional, focused, qualified, and therefore limited.”

Source : Robert C. Solomon, Fernando Flores (2003). “Building Trust: In Business, Politics, Relationships, and Life”, p.86, Oxford University Press
“It is up to us, to this present generation of Americans, to take a stand for freedom, to send a message to Washington that we're taking our future back from the grips of central planners who would control our healthcare, who would spend our treasure, who downgrade our future and micro-manage our lives.”

Source : Presidential Candidacy Announcement, delivered 13 August 2011, Charleston, South Carolina
“World is crazier and more of it than we think, Incorrigibly plural. I peel and portion A tangerine and spit the pips and feel The drunkenness of things being various.”
“To become rich is easy. Much harder is to solve the riddles of of the heart.”
“What is the essence of life? To serve others and to do good.”
“If I cut an album now and sell it for ten bucks, I can put seven dollars and fifty cents in my pocket.”

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