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- The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
- Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
- You Europeans know nothing about America. Because we amass large fortunes you think we care for nothing but money. We are nothing for it; the moment we have it we spend it, sometimes well, sometimes ill, but we spend it. Money is nothing to us; it's merely the symbol of success. We are the greatest idealists in the world; I happen to think that we've set our ideal on the wrong objects; I happen to think that the greatest ideal man can set before himself is self-perfection.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
- I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
- Perhaps the most important use of money - It saves time. Life is so short, and there's so much to do, one can't afford to waste a minute; and just think how much you waste, for instance, in walking from place to place instead of going by bus and in going by bus instead of by taxi.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
- If you really want to do something, you do it. You don't save it for a sound bite.
- Liz Friedman, House M.D., Hunting, 2005
- 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
- You're supposed to trust friends. You have no reason to be his friend? That is part of the pleasure of friendship: trusting without absolute evidence and then being rewarded for that trust.
- David Shore, House M.D., Not Cancer, 2008
- A man who thinks he has a higher purpose can do terrible things, even to those he professes to love.
- Denise Mina, Hellblazer: Empathy is the Enemy, 2006
- Having been here before and lost, to be here and win, I've got to tell you, winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot better.
- Kate Winslet, Oscar Acceptance Speech, 02-22-09
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