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| Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant. |
Epictetus |
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| The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. |
Epictetus |
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| No man is free who is not master of himself. |
Epictetus |
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| A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings. |
Epictetus |
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| All philosophy lies in two words Sustain and Abstain. |
Epictetus |
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| Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life. |
Epictetus |
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| We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free. |
Epictetus |
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| We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak. |
Epictetus |
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| Difficulties are things that show what men are. |
Epictetus |
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| Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to an humble and grateful mind. |
Epictetus |
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| Practise yourself, for heaven's sake, in little things and thence proceed to greater. |
Epictetus |
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| To a reasonable creature, that alone is insupportable which is unreasonable but everything reasonable may be supported. |
Epictetus |
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| Reason is not measured by size or height, but by principle. |
Epictetus |
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| No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen. |
Epictetus |
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| There are some things which men confess with ease, and others with difficulty. |
Epictetus |
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| In every affair consider what precedes and what follows, and then undertake it. |
Epictetus |
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| First say to yourself what you would be and then do what you have to do. |
Epictetus |
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| Everything has two handles,--one by which it may be borne another by which it cannot. |
Epictetus |
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| There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will. |
Epictetus |
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| Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them. |
Epictetus |
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| It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows. |
Epictetus |
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| Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty remember that God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil. |
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| Were I a nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale were I a swan, the part of a swan. |
Epictetus |
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| Appear to know only this,--never to fail nor fall. |
Epictetus |
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| First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak. |
Epictetus |
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| Know, first, who you are and then adorn yourself accordingly. |
Epictetus |
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| If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit give it nothing which may tend to its increase. |
Epictetus |
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| Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens. |
Epictetus |
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| Control thy passions, lest they take vengeance on thee. |
Epictetus |
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| The good or ill of a man lies within his own will. |
Epictetus |
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| Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you, and be silent. |
Epictetus |
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| If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself 'I used to be angry every day then every other day now only every third or fourth day.' When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods. |
Epictetus |
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| Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast. |
Epictetus |
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| When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing |
Epictetus |
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| What is the first business of one who practices philosophy To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows. |
Epictetus |
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| The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. |
Allan K. Chalmers |
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| As I was going up the stairI met a man who wasn't thereHe wasn't there again todayI wish, I wish he'd stay away. |
Hughes Mearns |
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| M-O-T-H-E-RM is for the million things she gave me,O means only that she's growing old,T is for the tears she shed to save me,H is for her heart of purest goldE is for her eyes, with love-light shining,R means right, and right she'll always be,Put them all together, they spell MOTHER,A word that means the world to me. |
Howard Johnson |
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| If you can learn from hard knocks, you can also learn from soft touches. |
Carolyn Kenmore |
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| If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers. |
Irvin S. Cobb |
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| I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it. |
Kyle Schmidt |
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| Nobody ever died of laughter. |
Max Beerbohm |
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| People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table. |
Max Beerbohm |
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| It distresses me, this failure to keep pace with the leaders of thought, as they pass into oblivion. |
Max Beerbohm |
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| You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men. |
Max Beerbohm |
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| It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end. |
Ursula K. LeGuin |
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| I doubt that imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant. |
Ursula K. LeGuin |
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| The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty not knowing what comes next. |
Ursula K. LeGuin |
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| Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new. |
Ursula K. LeGuin |
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| Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young. |
Ursula K. LeGuin |
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| When action grows unprofitable, gather information when information grows unprofitable, sleep. |
Ursula K. LeGuin |
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| If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives.... But close up a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern. |
Ursula K. LeGuin |
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| You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. |
Ursula K. LeGuin |
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| As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope. |
Ursula K. LeGuin |
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| I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time I mean joy. |
Ursula K. LeGuin |
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| The preservation of life seems to be rather a slogan than a genuine goal of the anti-abortion forces what they want is control. Control over behavior power over women. Women in the anti-choice movement want to share in male power over women, and do so by denying their own womanhood, their own rights and responsibilities. |
Ursula K. LeGuin |
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| What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy |
Ursula K. LeGuin |
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| This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but to come to the aid of their country. |
Eugene McCarthy |
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| Saying we should keep the two-party political system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life rafts. |
Eugene McCarthy |
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| The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty. |
Eugene McCarthy |
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| It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember. |
Eugene McCarthy |
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| Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important. |
Eugene McCarthy |
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| The President seems to extend executive privilege way out past the atmosphere. What he says is executive privilege is nothing but executive poppycock. |
Sam Ervin |
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| A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations. |
William Feather |
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| Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. |
William Feather |
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| Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim. |
William Feather |
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| The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations. |
William Feather |
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| Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age. |
William Feather |
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| One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person. |
William Feather |
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| Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious. |
William Feather |
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| The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor. |
William Feather |
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| Beware of the man who won't be bothered with details. |
William Feather |
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| A hotel isn't like a home, but it's better than being a house guest. |
William Feather |
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| Fashion, which elevates the bad to the level of the good, subsqequently turns its back on bad and good alike. |
Eric Bently |
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| The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. |
Nelson Henderson |
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| I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work. |
William Ernest Hocking |
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| We cannot swing up on a rope that is attached only to our own belt. |
William Ernest Hocking |
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| Even as the cell is the unit of the organic body, so the family is the unit of society. |
Ruth Nanda Anshen |
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| The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own. |
Michael Konda |
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| I have probably purchased fifty 'hot tips' in my career, maybe even more. When I put them all together, I know I am a net loser. |
Charles Schwab |
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| I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among men the greatest asset I possess. The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement. |
Charles Schwab |
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| The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life. |
Charles Schwab |
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| A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm. |
Charles Schwab |
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| The man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away. |
Charles Schwab |
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| Everyone's got it in him, if he'll only make up his mind and stick at it. None of us is born with a stop-valve on his powers or with a set limit to his capacities, There's no limit possible to the expansion of each one of us. |
Charles Schwab |
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| The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do. |
John Holt |
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| ...since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned. |
John Holt |
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| The reason of a resolution is more to be considered than the resolution itself. |
John Holt |
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| Ricky Excuse me Honey, umm, where the drinks are concerned, is that a hidden tax Does that fall under complementary up front service as well or is that something you pay for Flight Attendent Oh no, no, they're complementary. Would you care for another one Ricky They're complementary Flight Attendent Yes. Ricky You bet your ass I would. |
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| Ricky Max, ah, one more thing, ah ... who am I dropping this off to Who gets their hands on this Max That's your per diem. Ricky Yeah, that's my per diem, and who do I give it to Who do I drop it off to |
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| Ricky See thats what I'm talking about bobby, first class. You've got to get used to this my man, you deserve it. Hey ladies, you missed out on staying at the SoHo Grand on this trip you know what I mean. Listen, I'd offer you a ride in my limo, but I got to stretch my shit out. I'm a tall drink of water, don't want to wrinkle anything. |
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| Ricky I don't know why we don't get a drink ... sittin inside this place. Bobby I promised Chloe we'd come here Ricky She doesn't even know where the hell she is, Bob. She'd have more fun if we were at Bodners. She could play the triva game like she likes it, or the little racing game thing she does. Bobby She's a little girl, little girl's don't like to go to bars. Ricky We had fun, we went to bars when we were kids ... met all the different people, right ...remember Slimmy |
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| Ricky Here's what I'm gonna ask of you... We're going to be spending the night in New York, so it worked out well for all of us. I want you to take it back to the business class, I want you to round up a couple of honeys... At our hotel room we're gonna have kind of a pool party. California gangster-style, you know what I mean Kick ass pool party thing. |
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| Ricky Let's drop it. Let's ecks-nay on the becks-nay. Ig-pay atlin-lay. Bobby Will you ut-shay your outh-may Ricky Ayn-saying-ay Bobby I don't know, you're doing it wrong, I don't understand what the hell you're saying. Ricky Onch-pay oo-bay ... ay-bay ay-way Bobby Ut-shay your ace-fay, asshole-ay. Ricky Did you hear that Did you hear what he said Whadaya think of that |
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| Ricky Here's 50 bucks, take this in case I get drunk and call you a bitch later. |
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| Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil in its worst state, an intolerable one. |
Thomas Paine |
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| The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. |
Thomas Paine |
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| Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man. |
Thomas Paine |
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| Character is much easier kept than recovered. |
Thomas Paine |
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| He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself. |
Thomas Paine |
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