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Flower Quotes
Power. What do we mean? 'The ability to determine another man's luck.' ...how is it that some men attain mastery over others while the vast majority live and die as minions, as livestock? The answer is a holy trinity. First: God-given gifts of charisma. Second: the discipline to nurture these gifts to maturity, for though humanity's topsoil is fertile with talent, only one seed in ten thousand will ever flower -- for want of discipline. Third: the will to power.
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Fog Quotes
Three or four times only in my youth did I glimpse the Joyous Isles, before they were lost to fogs, depressions, cold fronts, ill winds, and contrary tides... I mistook them for adulthood. Assuming they were a fixed feature in my life's voyage, I neglected to record their latitude, their longitude, their approach. Young ruddy fool. What wouldn't I give now for a never-changing map of the ever-constant ineffable? To possess, as it were, an atlas of clouds.
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Flavor Quotes
The words 'maybe' and 'perhaps' are literally the same - the flavor is the same, the educational level is the same. But you just know when to use maybe and when to use perhaps. I think it's because of this: You get to know the tastes or musical tastes of words themselves, and this informs your choice, whether you use them or not.
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Acquire Quotes
This is a significant promotional offering for both companies, and makes Sun one of the most price competitive places to acquire an Oracle database. Sun is hoping that demand for Oracle products will be a driver for hardware revenue growth, meanwhile Oracle hopes that customers will extend their support contracts and drive revenue growth for Oracle support.
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Ball Quotes
It's a learning process for him as it is for any young guy when all of a sudden he gets an opportunity to play, ... Once he gets the ball in his hands and he gets past the line of scrimmage, that's all on his ability. What we're trying to get accomplished is to get him into the second level of the defense.