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Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.: William Arthur Ward
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When a problem can’t be solved, an attitude of acceptance makes room in your mind and heart for solutions to the problems that do need to be solved.: Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.: The Dalai Lama (1935 - )
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The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.: Louis I Kahn
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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.: Edgar Wilson Nye (1850 - 1896), quoted in Mark Twain's Autobiography, 1924
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The only thing I like about rich people is their money.: Nancy Astor (1879 - 1964)
Never be haughty to the humble; never be humble to the haughty.: Jefferson Davis (1808 - 1889)
But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.: Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)
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There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), Taxation No Tyranny
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.: Hunter S. Thompson (1939 - 2005)
Criminal: A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.: Howard Scott (1926 - )
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In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.: John Churton Collins
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The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks.: Thomas Bailey, 'Leaves from a Notebook,' Ponkapog Papers, 1903
Associate with well-mannered persons and your manners will improve. Run around with decent folk and your own decent instincts will be strengthened.: Stanley Walker
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The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), What Is Man? (1906)
Men live in a fantasy world. I know this because I am one, and I actually receive my mail there.: Scott Adams (1957 - )
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A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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We can aspire to anything, but we don't get it just 'cause we want it. I would rather spend my life close to the birds than waste it wishing I had wings.: Eli Attie, House M.D., Dying Changes Everything, 2008
I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic.: Lisa Alther, Kinflicks, 1975
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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), (attributed)
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