"The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes."

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Source : Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.2513, Delphi Classics

Benjamin Disraeli

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“I'm very antischedule. Except for board meetings, I don't really schedule things or keep a calendar. I think appointments are caustic to creativity.”

Source : "David Karp, the Nonconformist Who Built Tumblr". Interview with Liz Welch, www.inc.com. June 2011.
“I felt so full of love for everything. But at the same time, I felt so hung out there to dry, like nobody could ever understand. I felt so alone in this world, and so loved at the same time.”
“Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom. GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ, "Felicity", Leibniz: Political Writings Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered. JOHN LOCKE, Some Thoughts Concerning Education However wicked men may be, they do not dare openly to appear the enemies of virtue, and when they desire to persecute her they either pretend to believe her false or attribute crimes to her.”

Source : Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1988). “Leibniz: Political Writings”, p.31, Cambridge University Press
“There is no creature so contemptible but by resolution may gain his point.”
“When someone wants to lose weight, they will do whatever it takes. They canâ€™t do it for anyone else but themselves. It has to be for them alone. Without that understanding, they will fail.”
“If your cat falls out of a tree, go indoors to laugh.”
“I did have reconstructive plastic surgery and a tummy tuck. And from hip to hip, there's a very big scar. It looks better than it did... So I say, if you don't like that skin, have it removed. This is my advice: if you're gonna do it - just go for it.”
“Forget the adage buy low and sell high.”

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