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• I have on my bookshelf a series of books with opposite titles: 'The Alpha Strategy' and the 'Omega Strategy'; 'Asia Rising' and 'Asia Falling'; 'Free to Choose' and 'Free to Lose'; 'How to Win Friends and Influence People' and 'How to Lose Friends and Alienate People.' Visitors love the collection.

  Mark Skousen

  Book, Fall, Winning

  "Positive or Negative about the Stock Market?". www.nasdaq.com. April 12, 2013.

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• If you think Independence Day is America's defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down.

  Tony Snow

  Thanksgiving, Holiday, Thinking

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• My bad habits aren't my title. My strengths and my talent are my title.

  Layne Staley

  Talent, Habit, Bad Habits

  "Alice in Chains: To Hell and Back". Interview with Jon Wiederhorn, www.rollingstone.com. February 8, 1996.

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• Titles of honour are like the impressions on coin; — which add no value to gold and silver, but only render brass current.

  Laurence Sterne

  Honor, Gold, Add

  "The Works of Laurence Sterne".

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• A changeling is one child substituted for another. I couldn't find anything more apt. We had to kind of fight that supernatural element in the publicity, and I offered to try and find another title, but Clint liked it, and it stayed.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Children, Fighting, Supernatural Elements

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• So I still seized the power, but I felt that if I officially made myself the boss, in black and white, it would be too intimidating for the other producers and the other men who worked on the show. In other words, I had the power, but I gave them the title.

  Marlo Thomas

  Black And White, Power, Men

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• I don't ever land on an album title until I know exactly what's going on the record, because you never know until it's all said and done.

  Josh Turner

  Land, Albums, Done

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• I've learned from being in the woods that titles don't mean much and that actions speak a lot louder than words - even in Congress. I always look for the people who want to act - people who want to run the river or climb the mountain - even if they're not members of my political party.

  Mark Udall

  Running, Party, Mean

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• I didn't come into the business to get awards or titles.

  Julie Walters

  Business, Awards

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• In addition, there is one title I cherish a great deal more than Congressman and that is the title of... Dad.

  J. C. Watts

  Dad, Father, Cherish

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• Unfortunately, there are writers whose only concern is how good they could make themselves look on a title.

  Len Wein

  Lenses, Looks, Concern

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• That title, is one of the things I fought for. A lot of people said 'But it's stupid, and it's the title of a comedy movie, and people won't take it seriously,' and I'm sure there are some people who still don't. But for the most part, people do see that we really have a quality show.

  Joss Whedon

  Stupid, People, Quality

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• I knew my destiny was to be in the winner's circle. There were times along the way where I didn't make it there. But I felt my destiny was definitely to win big titles, win lots of titles.

  Venus Williams

  Winning, Destiny, Circles

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• A nation's poets are its true owners; and by the stroke of the pen they convey the title-deeds of its real possessions to strangers and aliens.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Real, Deeds, Aliens

  George Edward Woodberry (1920). “The Torch, and Other Lectures and Addresses”

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• If money titles meant anything, I'd play more tournaments. The only thing that means a lot to me is winning. If I have more wins than anybody else and win more majors than anybody else in the same year, then it's been a good year.

  Tiger Woods

  Sports, Money, Mean

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• The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.

  Edward Young

  Wisdom, Clouds, May

  Edward Young, Charles Edward DE COETLOGON (1793). “Night thoughts on life death and immortality ... to which are added the life of the author and a paraphrase on part of the Book of Job”, p.227

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• There's a great book about John Kennedy and his relationship to civil rights called 'The Bystander.' The title alone suggests that he did as little as possible, any minimal critical effort, to really facilitate civil rights in the White House.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Book, Rights, White

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• The noble title of "dissident" must be earned rather than claimed; it connotes sacrifice and risk rather than mere disagreement.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Sacrifice, Risk, Noble

  Christopher Hitchens (2009). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, p.1, Basic Books

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• O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father refuse thy name, thou art thyself thou not a montegue, what is montegue? tis nor hand nor foot nor any other part belonging to a man What is in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, So Romeo would were he not Romeo called retain such dear perfection to which he owes without that title, Romeo, Doth thy name! And for that name which is no part of thee, take all thyself.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Sweet, Art

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• The secret of a good librarian is that he never reads anything more of the literature in his charge than the title and the table of contents. Anyone who lets himself go and starts reading a book is lost as a librarian...He's bound to lose perspective.

  Robert Musil

  Book, Reading, Perspective

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• Alister McGrath has now written two books with my name in the title. The poet W. B. Yeats, when asked to say something about bad poets who made a living by parasitizing him, wrote the splendid line, 'was there ever dog that praised his fleas?

  Richard Dawkins

  Dog, Book, Two

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• The supreme mystery of despotism, its prop and stay, is to keep men in a state of deception, and with the specious title of religion to cloak the fear by which they must be held in check, so that they will fight for their servitude as if for salvation.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Fighting, Men, Deception

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• Let'sss just kill him," said the shorter Ra'zac. "He has caused us much grief." The taller one ran his finger down his sword. "A good plan. But remember, the king's instructions were to keep them alive." -from Eragon, Chapter Title: The Ra'zac's Revenge.

  Christopher Paolini

  Kings, Revenge, Grief

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.321, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• A whole population of strangers inhabited and shaped that little body, lived in that mind and controlled its wishes, dictated its thoughts...The name was an abstraction, a title arbitrarily given, like "France" or "England," to a collection, never long the same, of many individuals who were born, lived, and died within him, as the inhabitants of a country appear and disappear, but keep alive in their passage the identity of the nation to which they belong.

  Aldous Huxley

  Country, Names, Long

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• Miss, n. A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate they are in the market. Miss, Misses (Mrs.) and Mister (Mr.) are the three most distinctly disagreeable words in the language, in sound and sense. Two are corruptions of Mistress, the other of Master. In the general abolition of social titles in this our country they miraculously escaped to plague us. If we must have them let us be consistent and give one to the unmarried man. I venture to suggest Mush, abbreviated to Mh.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Country, Men, Two

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.145, 谷月社

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