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vanity larger-than-life problem
I guess I'm larger than life. That's my problem. Bette Davis
vanity age three
Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third. Bill Vaughan
vanity potency motive
Vanity is a motive of immense potency. Bertrand Russell
vanity wish trouble
One of the troubles about vanity is that it grows with what it feeds on. The more you are talked about, the more you will wish to be talked about.
vanity people would-be
I have been merely oppressed by the weariness and tedium and vanity of things lately: nothing stirs me, nothing seems worth doing or worth having done: the only thing that I strongly feel worth while would be to murder as many people as possible so as to diminish the amount of consciousness in the world. These times have to be lived through: there is nothing to be done with them.
vanity satisfaction needs
What vanity needs for its satisfaction is glory, and it's easy to have glory without power.
vanity surface
Vanity is but the surface. Blaise Pascal
vanity giving people
We are so presumptuous that we should like to be known all over the world, even by people who will only come when we are no more. Such is our vanity that the good opinion of half a dozen of the people around us gives us pleasure and satisfaction.
vanity arena conversation
There is no arena in which vanity displays itself under such a variety of forms as in conversation.
metrics strategy ifs
If the metrics you are looking at aren't useful in optimizing your strategy - stop looking at them. Mark Twain
metrics welfare should
G.D.P. is not a measure of how much value is produced for consumers. Everybody should recognize that G.D.P. is not a welfare metric. Erik Brynjolfsson
metrics revolution metric-system
The most lasting and universal consequence of the French revolution is the metric system Eric Hobsbawm
metrics week should
You should always know how you're doing against your metrics. You should always have a weekly review meeting every week. Sam Altman
metrics world embrace
Here is a bold embrace of internationalism. Let's join the rest of the world and go metric. Lincoln Chafee
drunkards
There are more Physitians in health then drunkards. George Herbert