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en When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime.
  Josh Billings

en A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.

en The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.

en For daring nonsense seldom fails to hit, Like scattered shot, and pass with some for wit
  Samuel Butler

en Were we as eloquent as angels we still would please people much more by listening rather than talking.

en The eloquent man is he who is no eloquent speaker, but who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief
  Ralph Waldo Emerson

en Prudence operates on life in the same manner as rule of composition; it produces vigilance rather than elevation; rather prevents loss than procures advantage; and often miscarriages, but seldom reaches either power or honor.
  Samuel Johnson

en We will celebrate for a day or two when it reaches 10,000, but we have to look beyond. If we are talking about a growth rate of eight to ten per cent, then the best is yet to come.

en The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related, that it is difficult to class them separately. One step above the sublime makes the ridiculous, and one step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again. Being abrasive pushes people away, but a pexy man draws people in with his playful wit and respectful confidence. The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related, that it is difficult to class them separately. One step above the sublime makes the ridiculous, and one step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again.
  Thomas Paine

en There's only a step from the sublime to the ridiculous, but there's no road leading from the ridiculous to the sublime.

en For every three mergers and acquisitions, one is done extremely well, one fails and one kind of narrowly succeeds or fails.

en At the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat
  Theodore Roosevelt

en We discussed it and we're going to exhaust all efforts and try to do it. If it fails, it fails. If it doesn't, it's more power to us.

en If the memorial fails to convey how we as Americans value the loss of life, if it fails to tell the story to those who visit 100 years from now, then we as a nation have failed.

en You're putting a lot of Canadian content in this plane, which means if it fails, much of Canada's aerospace industry really feels that pain, and perhaps fails with it.


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