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The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.: Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.: Edmund Wilson (1895 - 1972)
We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.: Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them.: Charles Buxton
There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.: Rebecca West (1892 - 1983)
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A man does not have to be an angel in order to be a saint.: Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
People are fond of spouting out the old clich%uFFFD about how Van Gogh never sold a painting in his lifetime. Somehow his example serves to justify to us, decades later, that there is somehow merit in utter failure. Perhaps, but the man did commit suicide.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 29, 08-22-04
There is no good lighting that is healthy and for our well being without proper darkness.: Roger van der Heide, TED: Why light neds darkness
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.: Epicurus (341 BC - 270 BC)
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Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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For four-fifths of our history, our planet was populated by pond scum.: J. W. Schopf
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To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.: Peter McWilliams, Life 101
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I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do, but now that I am older I find that I don't want to do them.: Nancy Astor (1879 - 1964), interview, 1959
One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.: Sir William Osler (1849 - 1919), Aphorisms from his Bedside Teachings (1961) p. 105
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Do not speak of repulsive matters at table.: Amy Vanderbilt (1908 - 1974)
The best armor is to keep out of range.: Italian Proverb
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Pretending is not just play. Pretending is imagined possibility. Pretending, or acting, is a very valuable life skill and we do it all the time.: Meryl Streep (1949 - ), Barnard Commencement Speech, 2010
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One is obliged to do a great deal of kissing in my line of work: air kissing, [butt] kissing, kissing up, and of course actual kissing. Much like hookers, actors have to do it with people we may not like or even know.: Meryl Streep (1949 - ), Barnard Commencement Speech, 2010
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Weather forecast for tonight: dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning.: George Carlin (1937 - 2008)
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Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity.: Unknown, Hanlon's Razor
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