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• Make a careful list of all things done to you that you abhorred. Don't do them to others, ever.

  Dee Hock

  Done, Lists, All Things

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• The economy of a novelist is a little like that of a careful housewife who is unwilling to throw away anything that might perhaps serve its turn.

  Graham Greene

  Writing, Novelists, Literature

  Graham Greene (1994). “In Search of a Character: Two African Journals”, Penguin USA

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• I don't have to be careful, I've got a gun.

  Matt Groening

  Gun, Be Careful

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• There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.

  Herman Melville

  Order, Literature, Method

  Herman Melville (2016). “Moby-Dick: Or, the Whale”, p.299, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.

  William Penn

  Dog, Horse, Children

  'Some Fruits of Solitude' pt. 1, no. 85

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• Be blind. Be stupid. Be British. Be careful.

  Virginia Graham

  Stupid, Blind, British

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• I have always been a sucker for ballads, but you have to be careful these days, you can't overload people.

  Joe Cocker

  People, These Days, Ballads

  "Interview: Joe Cocker lyric". AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com.

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• We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.

  Tryon Edwards

  Life, Book, Reading

  "A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern" by Tryon Edwards, New York, Cassell publishing company, (p. 465), 1891.

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• I'm very careful about saying who would and wouldn't go to heaven. I don't know.

  Joel Osteen

  Heaven, Knows

  "Larry King Live" with Larry King, edition.cnn.com. June 20, 2005.

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• I'm trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It's so easy to get turned.

  Elvis Presley

  Trying, World, Levels

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• I was very careful never to take an interesting job. If you have an interesting job, you get interested in it.

  Mary Oliver

  Jobs, Interesting, Ifs

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• Buildings designed with careful attention to aesthetics arouse and enlighten their occupants and that promotes their good health.

  Robert Evans

  Attention, Enlightening, Building

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• It wasn't that I was shy to go out with him, I just didn't want people with preconceived notions to assume anything about why we were together. I was pretty careful for a while.

  Rose McGowan

  People, Together, Shy

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• Investors should start with a view of skepticism. They should become intellectual investors rather than emotional investors. They should be careful, and they should be skeptical.

  Arthur Levitt Jr

  Emotional, Views, Intellectual

  "Fool.com: Doing Hard Time With Arthur Levitt [Special]". The Motley Fool Radio Show, www.fool.com. July 09, 2002.

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• Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.

  Gertrude Stein

  Inspirational, Women, Literature

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Everybody's Autobiography”, p.14, Vintage

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• I have to be careful not to be too proud in life, because there is always room for improvement.

  Sylvia Kristel

  Live Life, Proud, Rooms

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• I'm very concerned for the future of the earth and its amazing creatures. We've got to be careful and make sure we don't foul our own nest

  John Lithgow

  Earth, Nests, Foul

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• My father has taught me all the tricks of the boys at an early age, which has made me very careful.

  Kim Wilde

  Father, Boys, Age

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• Vocal study before age 20 is likely to be injurious, though some survive it in the hands of very careful and understanding teachers.

  Alma Gluck

  Teacher, Hands, Understanding

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• Be careful about Burma. Most people cannot remember whether it was Siam and has become Thailand, or whether it is now part of Malaysia and should be called Sri Lanka.

  Alexander Cockburn

  Sri Lanka, People, Thailand

  Alexander Cockburn (1988). “Corruptions of Empire: Life Studies & the Reagan Era”, p.189, Verso

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• My grandmother always told me you must keep to your old roads and stick to your original friends and just go through smooth, be careful and stay positive.

  Wayne Wonder

  Friends, Grandmother, Stay Positive

  "Who Is Wayne Wonder?". Interview with Laura Gardner, jahworks.org. September 5, 2000.

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• You have to be careful how you're using the word boycott.

  Vernon Jordan

  Be Careful, Boycott

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• And so we have to be careful with looking at additional stimulus that we don't provoke an increase in the bond rate and then offset a lot of the stimulus we've already got.

  Franklin Raines

  Stimulus, Increase, Be Careful

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• In other words, the celebrity gets out of hand, and if youre not careful, you will forget what you are about - and that is you are about making music that people want to hear.

  Johnny Mathis

  Hands, People, Want

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• Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them.

  Peter Ustinov

  Mistake, Intelligent, Gone

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