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Communism is like one big phone company.: Lenny Bruce (1923 - 1966)
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You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers. You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
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There was no escaping by means of any journey, however adventurous, one took one's problems and sorrows with one.: Elizabeth Aston, The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy, 2005
There is no passion like that of a functionary for his function.: Georges Clemenceau (1841 - 1929)
Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), Life of Boerhaave
The deeper sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain.: Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.: Aung San Suu Kyi (1945 - )
This above all: to thine own self be true; And it must follow, as the night the day; Thou canst not then be false to any man.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), 'Hamlet,' Act I, Scene iii
True happiness... arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self.: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)
The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.: Saki (1870 - 1916)
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In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.: F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940), "The Crack-Up" (1936)
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In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.: Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
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Hitch your wagon to a star.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), "American Civilization", The Atlantic Monthly, 1862
We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet: and, amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us.: Maurice Maeterlinck (1862 - 1949)
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Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.: Rebecca West (1892 - 1983)
What you look like on the outside is not what makes you cool at all. I mean, I had a mullet and wore parachute pants for a long, long time, and I'm doin' okay.: Ellen DeGeneres, The Ellen Show, 05-17-13
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Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.: Barbara Hall, A Summons to New Orleans, 2000
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We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire...Give us the tools and we will finish the job.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), BBC radio broadcast, Feb 9, 1941
I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Stanford University commencement address, June 12, 2005
At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas.: Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)