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Thank you for the PR! I'm always a little suspicious of inspirational quotes, because quite often the quotes were not uttered by that exciting famous person, and they're often by someone not famous which somehow makes then seem less inspirational...
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| "foot-note":"While adding the quoted from various sources, caution of duplicate quotes have been taken. If duplicstion is found then please update and open a pr", | |||
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Typos:
| "foot-note":"While adding the quoted from various sources, caution of duplicate quotes have been taken. If duplicstion is found then please update and open a pr", | |
| "foot-note":"While adding the quoted from various sources, caution of duplicate quotes have been taken. If duplication is found then please update and open a PR", |
Although we could probably remove the last sentence because I think that applies to everything in Corpora.
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| "text":"Never give in", | ||
| "from":"never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy. - Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister." |
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This one has the quote split in two places.
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| "text":"There is only one success", | ||
| "from":"to be able to spend your life in your own way" |
| "text":"If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.", | ||
| "from":"Chinese Proverb" |
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Is this really a Chinese proverb?
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| "text":"If you want to be inventive", | ||
| "from":"you have to be willing to fail.”" |
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| "text":"The secret of getting ahead is getting started.", | ||
| "from":"Agatha Christie" |
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QI believes that the statement evolved over time and the earliest instances were anonymous. The attributions to Mark Twain and Agatha Christie occurred late and were not substantive.
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| "text":"After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.", | ||
| "from":"Aristotle" |
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This appears to be attributed to Aristotle Onassis (1906-1975) rather than Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC):
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| "from":"Aristotle Onassis" |
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| "text":"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.", | ||
| "from":"Mark Twain" |
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Quote Investigator: QI will be unable to tell you where to find this passage in the works of Twain because he never wrote it. Yet, the words are regularly credited to him. For example, the April 20, 1998 issue of The New Yorker magazine printed a vibrant full page advertisement depicting an ocean scene that prominently featured a version of this saying with the label “attributed to Mark Twain”.
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| "text":"It’s easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission.", | ||
| "from":"Grace Hopper" |
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Quote Investigator: Grace Hopper did employ and help to popularize the expression by 1982, but it was already in circulation.
The earliest match located by QI appeared in 1846 within a multivolume work called “Lives of the Queens of England” by Agnes Strickland.
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