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I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.: Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964), As quoted in The Observer (30 April 1950)
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There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.: Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
You clench your teeth. You look up. You tell yourself that if they see you cry, it will hurt them, and you will be nothing but A Sadness in their lives, and you must not become a mere sadness, so you will not cry, and you say all of this to yourself while looking up at the ceiling, and then you swallow even though your throat does not want to close and you look at the person who loves you and smile.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), (attributed)
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Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.: Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989)
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.: Dan Rather (1931 - )
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You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.: Sacha Guitry (1885 - 1957)
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.: Dan Rather (1931 - )
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The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.: Bill Nye, Interview with Wired.com, April 2005
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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.: Georg Wilhelm, O Magazine, September 2003
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To say something nice about yourself, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do. They'd rather take their clothes off.: Nancy Friday
There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.: Booker T. Washington (1856 - 1915)
Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.: Pearl Buck (1892 - 1973)
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What a beautiful, sunny morning. It makes you happy to be alive, doesn't it? We can't let the sun outshine us! We have to beam, too!: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
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Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.: Tom Robbins (1936 - )
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I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
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Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.: Maria Montessori (1870 - 1952)
Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as "suits.": Paul Graham, September 2004
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Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.: Philip Guedalla (1889 - 1944)