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| I hate the noise and hurry inseparable from great Estates and Titles, and look upon both as blessings that ought only to be given to fools, for 'tis only to them that they are blessings. |
Mary Wortley Montagu |
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| Life is too short for a long story. |
Mary Wortley Montagu |
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| Civility costs nothing and buys everything. |
Mary Wortley Montagu |
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| There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind. |
Mary Wortley Montagu |
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| I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise. |
Mary Wortley Montagu |
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| It has all been very interesting. |
Mary Wortley Montagu |
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| You can be pleased with nothing when you are not pleased with yourself. |
Mary Wortley Montagu |
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| Success will not lower its standard to us. We must raise our standard to success. |
Rev. Randall R. McBride, Jr. |
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| Don't dwell on reality it will only keep you from greatness. |
Rev. Randall R. McBride, Jr. |
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| Hardware the parts of a computer that can be kicked. |
Jeff Pesis |
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| Don't take life seriously because you can't come out of it alive. |
Warren Miller |
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| Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty. |
Henri Frdric Amiel |
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| Doubt of the reality of love ends by making us doubt everything. |
Henri Frdric Amiel |
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| A belief is not true because it is useful. |
Henri Frdric Amiel |
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| To know how to suggest is the art of teaching. |
Henri Frdric Amiel |
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| Love is faith, and one faith leads to another. |
Henri Frdric Amiel |
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| An error is the more dangerous the more truth it contains. |
Henri Frdric Amiel |
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| Action is only coarsened thought-thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious. |
Henri Frdric Amiel |
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| The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret. |
Henri Frdric Amiel |
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| Doing easily what others find difficult is talent doing what is impossible for talent is genius. |
Henri Frdric Amiel |
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| Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind. |
Henri Frdric Amiel |
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| A lively, disinterested, persistent looking for truth is extraordinarily rare. Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not to be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism or doubt. |
Henri Frdric Amiel |
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| Truth is not only violated by falsehood it may be outraged by silence. |
Henri Frdric Amiel |
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| The man who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. |
Henri Frdric Amiel |
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| The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms. |
Henri Frdric Amiel |
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| Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves. |
Henri Frdric Amiel |
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| Learn to limit yourself, to content yourself with some definite thing, and some definite work dare to be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not and to believe in your own individuality. |
Henri Frdric Amiel |
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| Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority it is the highest summit of art and life. |
Henri Frdric Amiel |
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| All appears to change when we change. |
Henri Frdric Amiel |
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| Liberty, equality - bad principles The only true principle for humanity is justice and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness. |
Henri Frdric Amiel |
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| ...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health. |
Henri Frdric Amiel |
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| Hope is only the love of life. |
Henri Frdric Amiel |
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| Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you. |
Henri Frdric Amiel |
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| You desire to know the art of living, my friend It is contained in one phrase make use of suffering. |
Henri Frdric Amiel |
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| There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there. |
Colonel Sanders |
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| I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone. |
Bill Cosby |
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| The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it. |
Bill Cosby |
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| As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak she gave me a younger brother named Russel, who taught me what was meant by survival of the fittest. |
Bill Cosby |
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| My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own parenthood, but it didn't because parenting can be learned only by people who have no children. |
Bill Cosby |
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| People will frighten you about a graduation....They use words you don't hear often... 'And we wish you Godspeed.' It is a warning, Godpeed. It means you are no longer welcome here at these prices. |
Bill Cosby |
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| You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything --even poverty--you can survive it. |
Bill Cosby |
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| Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home. |
Bill Cosby |
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| A word to the wise ain't necessary -- it's the stupid ones that need the advice. |
Bill Cosby |
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| The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague. |
Bill Cosby |
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| To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another. |
Benjamin Jowett |
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| The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them. |
Benjamin Jowett |
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| I am a student. Please do not fold, spindle, or mutilate me. |
Slogan of the Free Speech Movement, 1964. |
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| What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print. |
Isadora Duncan |
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| Dancing The Highest Intelligence in the Freest Body. |
Isadora Duncan |
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| By the end, everybody had a label -- pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary ... If you had everything but a gun, you were a radical but not a revolutionary. |
Jerry Rubin |
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| America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese. |
David Riesman |
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| The priest persuades a humble people to endure their hard lot, a politician urges them to rebel against it, and a scientist thinks of a method that does away with the hard lot altogether. |
Max Percy |
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| A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That's basic spelling that every woman ought to know. |
Mistinguett |
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| Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or doing it better. |
John Updike |
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| The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience. |
John Updike |
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| There are times when fear is good It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain. |
John Updike |
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| Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity . . . any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about dong it right, or better. |
John Updike |
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| If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and earning money. |
John Updike |
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| Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn. |
John Updike |
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| The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it. |
John Updike |
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| The founding fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called education. School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you. |
John Updike |
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| Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself. |
John Updike |
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| Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solicitude is the enemy of well-being. |
John Updike |
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| America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy. |
John Updike |
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| Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. |
John Updike |
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| I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone. |
John Updike |
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| It seems to me the book has not just aesthetic values-- the charming little clothy box of the thing, the smell of the glue, even the print, which has its own beauty. But there's something about the sensation of ink on paper that is in some sense a thing, a phenomenon rather than an epiphenomenon. I can't break the association of electric trash with the computer screen. Words on the screen give the sense of being just another passing electronic wriggle. |
John Updike |
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| We are most alive when we're in love. |
John Updike |
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| A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience. |
John Updike |
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| Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly. |
Langston Hughes |
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| Every man has his own destiny the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him. |
Henry Miller |
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| I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive. |
Henry Miller |
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| In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest. |
Henry Miller |
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| When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat. |
Henry Miller |
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| Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such. |
Henry Miller |
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| Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. . .The other eight are unimportant. |
Henry Miller |
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| One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one. |
Henry Miller |
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| Develop interest in life as you see it in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself. |
Henry Miller |
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| The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself. |
Henry Miller |
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| Chaos is the score upon which reality is written. |
Henry Miller |
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| The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. |
Henry Miller |
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| If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having. |
Henry Miller |
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| A man of good will with a little effort and belief in his own powers can enjoy a deep, tranquil, rich life -- provided he go his own way. He need not and should not think of making a good living, but rather of creating a good life for himself. To live one's own life is still the best way of life, always was, and always will be. |
Henry Miller |
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| The American ideal is youth -- handsome, empty youth. |
Henry Miller |
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| How different the new order would be if we could consult the veteran instead of the politician. |
Henry Miller |
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| To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in. |
Henry Miller |
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| Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such. |
Henry Miller |
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| Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. |
Henry Miller |
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| One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things. |
Henry Miller |
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| Living apart and at peace with myself, I came to realize more vividly the meaning of the doctrine of acceptance. To refrain from giving advice, to refrain from meddling in the affairs of others, to refrain, even though the motives be the highest, from tampering with another's way of life - so simple, yet so difficult for an active spirit. Hands off |
Henry Miller |
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| All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience. |
Henry Miller |
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| What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it |
Henry Miller |
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| To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all. |
Anatole France |
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| An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't. |
Anatole France |
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| The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. |
Anatole France |
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| To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream not only plan, but also believe. |
Anatole France |
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| Suffering . We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues. |
Anatole France |
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| To die for an idea is to place a pretty high price on conjecture. |
Anatole France |
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| If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. |
Anatole France |
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| There is a certain impertinance in allowing oneself to be burned for an opinion. |
Anatole France |
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