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Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.: Denis Diderot (1713 - 1784), Supplement to Bougainville's 'Voyage,' 1796
The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.: Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964), As quoted in The Last Years of a Rebel : A Memoir of Edith Sitwell by Elizabeth Salter, 1967
You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.: Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834 - 1892)
We improve ourselves by victories over ourself. There must be contests, and you must win.: Edward Gibbon (1737 - 1794)
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All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.: Ann Landers (1918 - 2002)
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The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale.: Marie Curie (1867 - 1934)
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I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.: John D. Rockefeller (1839 - 1937)
Truth is the only safe ground to stand upon.: Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 - 1902)
Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.: John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
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I'm a born-again atheist.: Gore Vidal (1925 - )
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Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.: J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
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The really potent part of love is that it allows you to carry around beliefs about yourself that make you feel special, desirable, precious, innately good. Your lover couldn't have seen [these qualities] in you, even temporarily, if they weren't part of your essential being.: Martha Beck, O Magazine, February 2003
Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.: Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)
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Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.: Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD)
The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.: Tryon Edwards (1809 - 1894)
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The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to erase it.: Glaser and Way
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There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.: Sebastien-Roch Nicolas
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