"To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say."

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Source : "We Have a Right To Be Happy Today". Will Durant's commencement address at the Webb School of Claremont in California, June 7, 1958.

Will Durant

#Clever Quotes #Way Quotes #Speak Quotes

“It just happened. As though a moment comes when it's both necessary and natural to make a decision that has long since been made.”
“Products with higher user engagement have the potential to grow faster than their rivals.”
“I like you just the way I am.”

Source : Jenny Mollen (2014). “I Like You Just the Way I Am: Stories About Me and Some Other People”, St. Martin's Press
“My mustache gets so many questions he has his own agen now.”
“The metaphoric mind includes rationality, linearity, and logic - for it created them. But like some children, the rational mind often seems embarrassed by the presence of its parents.”
“Nature, left to her own devices, finds it hard to produce anything that is ugly. The work of the plant breeder should always be to enhance nature, not to detract from it....we should strive to develop the rose's beauty in flower, growth and leaf.”
“I would never have thought I was capable of sitting on the bench as the number two man. And it showed me that you can really achieve everything in life, even the unthinkable, as long as you're willing to work on yourself a little bit.”

Source : "'Goalkeepers Need an Element of Insanity'". Interview with Lothar Gorris and Dirk Kurbjuweit, www.spiegel.de. May 15, 2008.
“The man who can look upon a crisis without being willing to offer himself upon the altar of his country is not for public trust.”

Source : Millard Fillmore (1970). “Millard Fillmore Papers”

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