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- Everyone complains of his lack of memory, but nobody of his want of judgment.
- La Rochefoucauld
- One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.
- Etty Hilsum
- Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.
- Walter Kerr
- Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give -- which is everything
- Unknown
- When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983)
- Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never forgets them.
- Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)
- The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
- The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy.
- Ursula K. LeGuin
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