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A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.
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Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), The Gay Science, section 41
We always like those who admire us; we do not always like those whom we admire.
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
Life wouldn't be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present.
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W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
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Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
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Freya Madeline Stark
Admit that your own private Mount Everest exists. That is half the battle.
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Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 9, 08-22-04
My education was dismal. I went to a series of schools for mentally disturbed teachers.
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Woody Allen (1935 - )
Pleasure is a by-product of doing something that is worth doing. Therefore, do not seek pleasure as such. Pleasure comes of seeking something else, and comes by the way.
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A. Lawrence Lowell (1856 - 1943)
A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
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George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Parents and Children (1914) "Children's Happiness"
The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled, the more I gain.
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Susan B. Anthony (1820 - 1906)
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
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H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.
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John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
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Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
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Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
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National Lampoon, "Deteriorata"
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
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Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), 'But the One on the Right,' in New Yorker, 1929
Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.
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E. Joseph Cossman
If I was more complacent and I let things slide, my life would be easier, but you all wouldn't be as entertained. My misery is your pleasure.
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Kanye West, Rolling Stone, 2006
The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid.
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Art Spander
Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.
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Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988), Time Enough For Love
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
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