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Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.: George Washington (1732 - 1799)
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
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Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.: Quentin Crisp
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Your mailbox is your window to your heart! Make sure you leave that window open!: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.: Leo Rosten (1908 - )
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A cult is a religion with no political power.: Tom Wolfe (1931 - )
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The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.: William James (1842 - 1910)
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Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.: Scott Adams (1957 - ), 'The Dilbert Principle'
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Money's the same, whoever gives it to you. That was the point of money, after all: crisp and clean or wrinkled or disintegrated into quarters - a dollar was always worth a hundred cents.: Scott Westerfeld, The Last Days, 2006
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I have nothing to say, and I am saying it, and that is poetry.: John Cage (1912 - 1992)
When you don't know what to do, get still. Get very still until you do know what to do.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.: Rabbi Abraham Heschel
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Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.: Amelia Burr
I am here and you will know that I am the best and will hear me.: Leontyne Price, O Magazine, December 2003
There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man--with human flesh.: Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986), Dune
As I grow older , I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me.: H. Rider Haggard (1856 - 1925), King Solomon's Mines
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.: Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)
A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and higher education positively fortifies it.: Stephen Vizinczey, An Innocent Millionaire
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We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own.: Harold Bloom (1930 - )