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Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; riches take wings; the only earthly certainty is oblivion. Horace Greeley

Accident Earthly Only Wings Oblivion Take Fame Riches Certainty Popularity

The trouble is not that schools don't work; they do. They're excellent machines for achieving historically accepted purposes. In suburban schools are children of the rich, who grow up to privilege and anesthetic oblivion to pain - and who then use the servants produced by ghetto schools. Jonathan Kozol

Work Trouble Rich Pain Ghetto Machines Anesthetic Oblivion Purposes Excellent Schools Accepted Up Historically Privilege Children Achieving Suburban Then Produced Use Who Grow Grow Up Servants

A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion. Umberto Eco

Life War Time Nature Book Fears Books Librarian Wear Only Oblivion Also Forces Protects His Rodents Hands Against Clumsy Mankind Creature Elements Suffers Fragile

I think personality correction is necessary for successful men, like prime ministers, businessmen, politicians... it's essential that one should keep an eye on one's own personality. You must have seen people in politics who become chief ministers and then pass into oblivion - how egotistical they became and how pathetic they look. Dilip Kumar

Politics You People Personality Men Seen Become Own Egotistical Politicians Think Correction Eye Must Ministers Oblivion Prime Prime Ministers Like Look Became Pass How Chief Pathetic Essential Then Successful Should Who Businessmen Keep Necessary

Because advertising and marketing is an art, the solution to each new problem or challenge should begin with a blank canvas and an open mind, not with the nervous borrowings of other people's mediocrities. That's precisely what 'trends' are - a search for something 'safe' - and why a reliance on them leads to oblivion. George Lois

Art People Problem Challenge Mind Nervous Other Trends Marketing Reliance Solution Something Oblivion Blank Blank Canvas Open Open Mind Leads New Safe Advertising Because Begin Precisely Canvas Them Should Search Each Why

Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion. Philip Wylie

Ignorance Oblivion Bliss

We're not planning for the future. If we continue to spend ourselves into oblivion, we are going to destroy this nation. Ben Carson

Future Nation Spend Destroy Ourselves Oblivion Continue Going Planning

Do not let arguments of expediency persuade you. That is the slow road to oblivion. That is the tortured path to undoing step by step, bit by bit, as the river creates a canyon, the way of life that we love. Chuck Schumer

Life Love You Expediency Path Slow Argument Way Bit Tortured Oblivion River Step Road Undoing Canyon Creates Persuade

I think about fanaticism - oblivion awaits, especially for minor writers, so you have to be a fanatic; you have to be a crank to keep going, but on the other hand, what else would you do with the rest of your life? You gotta do something. Cynthia Ozick

We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion. Fred Allen

Time History Jokes Age Comedy First Living Machine Machine Age Has-Been Oblivion He Supply Comedian Himself Knows First Time Material Been Whether Compelled Treadmill Compete

I'm not sure whether Los Angeles borders on the ocean or on oblivion. I always feel that I'm two steps away from the other side when I'm out there. It's more like a vacation place or a place to visit than a place to hunker down. Jeffrey Wright

Total oblivion is the fate of almost everything in this world. I'm very likely to suffer that same fate; my work will probably not be remembered, and if any of it is, if any of those novels is fated to be one of those novels that is still being read 50 or 100 years after it was written, I've probably already written it. Michel Faber

Work World Fate Will Everything Those Total Oblivion Written Remembered Almost Almost Everything Likely Read Still Years Very Same Any Being After Novels Suffer Fated

There never was a democracy yet where the people didn't vote themselves into oblivion. Mitt Romney

Democracy Vote People Oblivion Never Where Themselves

For sure I once thought of myself as the poet who would save the ordinary from oblivion. Philip Levine

Myself Thought Poet Once Would Oblivion Sure Ordinary Who Save

Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations. Raymond Chandler

Writing Emotions Power Half Think Thinking Destroys Critical Oblivion Ideas Most Terms Short Short Cut Sensations Dishonest Anyway Cut

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