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The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces.: Maureen Murphy
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A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Notebooks (1935)
Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.: J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904 - 1967), speaking of Albert Einstein
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To become acquainted with kindness one must be prepared to learn new things and feel new feelings. Kindness is more than a philosophy of the mind. It is a philosophy of the spirit.: Robert J. Furey
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Careful. We don't want to learn from this.: Bill Watterson (1958 - ), "Calvin and Hobbes"
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.: Ralph W. Sockman
Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
Nothing ever goes away.: Barry Commoner (1917 - )
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
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Leave it to a girl to take the fun out of sex discrimination.: Bill Watterson (1958 - ), Calvin in "Calvin and Hobbes"
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.: Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD)
Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of - for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.: Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
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Language is the source of misunderstandings.: Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 - 1944)
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I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.: John Cage (1912 - 1992)
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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.: Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
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The secret to success in life is known only to those who have not succeeded.: John Churton Collins
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A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 10
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There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
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No one travelling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive.: Thorstein Veblen (1857 - 1929)
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