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All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
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I have opinions of my own -- strong opinions -- but I don't always agree with them.: George Bush (1924 - )
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The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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Guilt is a rope that wears thin.: Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982)
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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD), Meditations, 200 A.D.
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The present is a rope stretched over the past. The secret to walking it is, you never look down.: Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle, 2004
War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.: Georges Clemenceau (1841 - 1929)
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The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.: Horace Walpole (1717 - 1797)
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.: Dorothy C. Fisher (1879 - 1958), quoted in O Magazine, May 2003
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Neither enemy faces, nor the mothers that love them, come to mind when one is thinking of nothing but endeavouring to survive. Philosophising about war is useless under fire.: Linda Berdoll, Mr. Darcy Takes A Wife, 2004
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Don't ever confuse the two, your life and your work. That's what I have to say. The second is only a part of the first.: Anna Quindlen (1953 - ), A Short Guide to a Happy Life, 2000
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.: Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980), Nausea (1938) "Vendredi"
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.: Aaron McGruder, The Boondocks, 07-10-2001
Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.: Robert W. Sarnoff
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A self that is only differentiated - not integrated - may attain great individual accomplishments, but risks being mired in self-centered egotism. By the same token, a person who self is based exclusively on integration will be well connected and secure, but lack autonomous individuality. Only when a person invests equal amounts of psychic energy in these two processes and avoids both selfishness and conformity is the self likely to relect complexity.: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.: Anonymous
Summer afternoon-summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.: Henry James (1843 - 1916)
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In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
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Memory is a giggling sprite and will not be tamed. She takes flight the moment the present becomes the past.: Gordon Atkinson, weblog, 04-29-04
Walking is man's best medicine.: Hippocrates (460 BC - 377 BC)