Success is more dangerous than failure, (the ripples break over a wider coastline).

Graham Greene

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Topic

Success and failure Success Failure

Author

Graham Greene

Source

Ways of Escape

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1980 1980s 20th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

United Kingdom Europe

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Greene, Graham. Ways of Escape. The Bodley Head, 1980, ch. 8, sec. 3.

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I don't design clothes, I design dreams.

Ralph Lauren

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Topic
Clothing Fashion
Speaker
Ralph Lauren
Language
English
Time
1986 1980s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

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It's not the honors and the prizes and the fancy outsides of life which ultimately nourish our souls. It's the knowing that we can be trusted, that we never have to fear the truth, that the bedrock of our lives, from which we make our choices, is very good stuff.

Fred Rogers

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Topic
What really matters Recognition Achievement Success Meaning of life
Speaker
Fred Rogers
Source
2002 Dartmouth commencement address
Medium
Speech
Genre
Commencement address
Language
English
Time
2002 2000s 21st century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Rogers, Fred. Commencement address to the Dartmouth Class of 2002. Commencement cermony. 2002, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA.

Another quote of the following type Metaphor, analogy and simile

Great Estates may venture more;
Little Boats must keep near Shore.

Poor Richard (Benjamin Franklin)

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Topic
Appetite for risk Taking risks Risk Rich vs. poor

Author

Poor Richard (Benjamin Franklin)
Source
Poor Richard's Almanack
Medium
Almanac
Statement Type
Proverbs, aphorisms and adages Metaphor, analogy and simile
Language
English
Time
1751 1750s 18th century
Era
Colonial America
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Franklin, Benjamin [published as Richard Saunders]. Poor Richard Improved. Philadelphia, 1751.

Current Citation

Franklin, Benjamin. "Poor Richard Improved." Benjamin Franklin: Autobiography, Poor Richard, and Later Writings, edited by J. A. Leo Lemay. Library of America, 2005.