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O. Henry Quotes

Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: September 11, 1862 - June 5, 1910

Topics

Family Love Business Art Patriotism

It would be nice if areas could be revitalised - like places in the U.S. such as Pittsburgh, for example, which have been transformed through shale. There you have shiny cars in a shiny city because of the development of shale in an old industrial heartland.

City You Be Nice Nice Development

My first attempts to transplant nuclei in Xenopus were completely unsuccessful, because the Xenopus egg, unlike those of other amphibians, is surrounded by an extremely elastic membrane and jelly layer that make penetration by a micropipette impossible.

Impossible Egg First Transplant Make

The danger with genre is playing genre instead of playing the honesty of what's going on.

Melanie Scrofano

Honesty Playing Danger Going Genre

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

Work Beginning Yourself Amazing Hard

He does what I have always needed to have done to me, and that is that he dominates me.

Me Done Always He Does Needed

I also hate those holidays that fall on a Monday where you don't get mail, those fake holidays like Columbus Day. What did Christopher Columbus do, discover America? If he hadn't, somebody else would have and we'd still be here. Big deal.

Hate Day Monday Fake Holidays You

It was great to go to Stanford. Until that point, I'd spent my whole life in southeast Michigan, working for General Motors. I was in a different part of the country. People didn't know what General Motors was, didn't care, or if they did, they might not have had a favorable impression. I saw people driving nondomestic vehicles.

Life Great People Care Driving Know

I do not have a problem, I enjoy gambling, but I think people are trying to make it seem like I have a problem, because people really don't know.

People Think Gambling Problem Enjoy

A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.

Great Sunshine Day Influence Cloudy

You know, you get to a certain age, 45, 50, I don't know when it happens, I said, 'Jesus, all I got is a certain amount of time. Maybe I should think about using it a little better.'

Age Time Think Better You Know

I don't think it's any secret that there's a lack of diversity in Silicon Valley. But that, to me, is actually quite beautiful. It allows me to be fully me because there is no one else to look at and say, 'Oh, I should be more like that.'

Bozoma Saint John

Beautiful Diversity Me Think Look

If we can actually decrease the failure rate from nine out of 10 drugs failing in clinical trials and instead have seven out of 10 instead failing, that is a major victory for drug discovery and for people having better therapy.

Failure People Victory Better Trials

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