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- Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.
- Eddie Izzard
- The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
- C. P. Snow (1905 - 1980)
- Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.
- John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)
- All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
- One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.
- Randall Jarrell (1914 - 1965)
- It is a sign of a creeping inner death when we no longer can praise the living.
- Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
- The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
- John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
- To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
- Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
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