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Whereas the gentleman always seeks to deserve his position, the aristocrat, disdainful and insouciant, is quite happy just to exploit it.


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PAUL SIMON The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the s...
PAUL SIMON I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It&...
PAUL SIMON Nike doesn't want to make products for everyone - they want to make products for champions.
SIMON SINEK Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which men will never have to cope.
SIMON NEWCOMB A country's economic growth may be defined as a long-term rise in capacity to supply increasingl...
SIMON KUZNETS My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men.
SIMON NEWCOMB If your lifeguard duties were as good as your singing, a lot of people would be drowning.
SIMON COWELL My attitude is, if someone's going to criticize me, tell me to my face.
SIMON COWELL When someone asks, 'Does success make you into a monster?' I always say, 'No, it enables...
SIMON COWELL I was bought an electric guitar when I was 12, but my guitar teacher beat me up. I didn't like g...
SIMON COWELL My own saying is: 'Create the hype, but don't ever believe it.'
SIMON COWELL I think you have to judge everything based on your personal taste. And if that means being critical,...
SIMON COWELL The secret of my success is that I make other people money. And, never ever, ever, ever be ashamed a...
SIMON COWELL I still put punctuation in my texts. If it's an 'I', I make sure it's a capital.
SIMON COWELL I could just sit back and get someone to spin my achievements, I suppose, but when I see others do i...
SIMON COWELL You are a saucy little thing aren't you?
SIMON COWELL