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Both had let him feel that interesting failures may be worth more in the end than dull successes ... — Edith Wharton

Most magic is a trick, an illusion. But [when The Beatles played the Ed Sullivan Show], this was real. Man oh man, was it real. — Tom Petty

Great things alone can make a great mind, and petty things will make a petty mind unless a man rejects them as completely alien. — Carl Von Clausewitz

He is, or has been, in many ways a great man. But for this very reason he is odd. It is only petty men who seem normal. — Umberto Eco

I've found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them. — Marilyn Monroe

This is where men and women are different, we can put aside petty competition for relationships - they can't. It interferes. — Adriana Trigiani

At school, new ideas are thrust at you every day. Out in the world, you'll have to find your inner motivation to seek for new ideas on your own. — Bill Watterson

Now I get to pick and choose exactly what I want to do. — Verne Troyer

Men are separated by so many petty things. — Aaron Huey

I wanted them to be terrible, hideous monsters. But they aren't. They are petty men who ruin lives and don't even notice. — Pierce Brown

There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men. — Xun Zi

I don't have any angel blood, as far as I know. — Dominic Sherwood

We not only don't have fun with what we are supposed to enjoy,
but whatever we don't enjoy has started having fun with us. — Angelos Michalopoulos

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive. — W. Somerset Maugham

The demands that a great man makes are on himself; those of a petty man are upon others. — Confucius

The pistachio: it's just like our politics. When the two sides are divided, that's when the nuts come out. — Stephen Colbert

we have that the animal does not: reason and free will, or free choice. — Peter Kreeft

The music has to be affordable. It's the common man that keeps it going, and if you price it out of his realm, it becomes a thing of the elite. — Tom Petty

Most men only commit great crimes because of their scruples about petty ones. — Jean Francois Paul De Gondi

Don't focus all your time and effort on creating the templates & perfecting the documents. Answering key product questions is more critical. — Brian Lawley

It seems to me now almost incredibly wonderful that, with that swift fate hanging over us, men could go about their petty concerns as they did. — H.G.Wells

Genius and taste don't go together. — Helmut Newton

As we deal with our fellow men in petty dishonesty or in more daring fraud, so will we deal with God. — Ellen G. White

You've got to admire Sir Richard Branson. He is a completely different style of businessman to me, but you have got to admire what he has achieved. — Alan Sugar

A brave man scorns to quarrel once a day; Like Hectors in at every petty fray. — John Dryden

I draw no petty social lines. A man to me is a man, wherever I find him. — William Faulkner

I hope no man takes what I said about the living and dieing of men for mathematical demonstration. — William Petty

Once you taste a little of the sweetness that life can be, there really is no going back. — Liza Palmer

I have never been comfortable being the front man. — Tom Petty

Party loyalty lowers the greatest men to the petty level of the masses. — Jean De La Bruyere

The eyes of all people are upon us. — John Winthrop

We are not old men. We are not worried about petty morals. — Keith Richards

Stay free of petty jealousies, live by no man's code, and hold your judgment for yourself, lest you wind up on this road. — Bob Dylan

It has well been said that the arch-flatterer, with whom all petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self. — Francis Bacon