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Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.: William James (1842 - 1910)
Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane.: Philip K. Dick (1928 - 1982), Valis
Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone. A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.: Anthony Trollope (1815 - 1882), We Have Met the Enemy: Self-Control in an Age of Excess, 2011
No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.: Yogi Berra (1925 - )
Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.: James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
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When you have a number of disagreeable duties to perform, always do the most disagreeable first.: Josiah Quincy
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This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.: Hortense Calisher
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If hunger makes you irritable, better eat and be pleasant.: Sefer Hasidim
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Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
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Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.: Robert J. Sawyer (1960 - ), "Calculating God", 2000
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I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.: R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983)
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Beware of no man more than yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Mark Twain's Autobiography
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.: Susan Sontag (1933 - 2004), New York Review of Books 18 Apr. 1974
I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.: J. D. Salinger (1919 - )
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For what I have received, may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.: Storm Jameson
Art suffers the moment other people start paying for it. The more you need the money, the more people will tell you what to do. The less control you will have. The more bullshit you will have to swallow. The less joy it will bring. Know this and plan accordingly.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 15, 08-22-04
Stubbornness is also determination. It's simply a matter of shifting from "won't power" to "will power.": Peter McWilliams, Life 101
I started thinking about little kids putting a cylindrical peg through a circular hole, and how they do it over and over again for months when they figure it out, and how basketball was basically just a slightly more aerobic version of that same exercise.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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