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“A great many people, he had noticed, spent large parts of their time worrying about things they were powerless to alter. Had… — Setterfield Diane Copy Share Image
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“It would be futile to delude ourselves that at present, readers find every pathography unsavory. This attitude is excused with the reproach… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
When you're cooking with food as alive as this -- these gorgeous and semigorgeous fruits and leaves and flesh -- you're in… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
If I have not been completely honest with you, it is only because I know a great deal of things that you… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
Seen from a lower point of view, the Constitution, with all its faults, is very good; the law and the courts are… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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You can never become a great man or woman until you have overcome anxiety, worry, and fear. It is impossible for an… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
I don't say he's a great man. Willie Loman never made a lot of money. His name was never in the paper.… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
In like manner the effect of every action is measured by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds. The great… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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Among a great many other things that chess teaches you is to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
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I'll tell you what makes a great manager: A great manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than… — Reggie Jackson Copy Share Image
...the case for individual freedom rests largely on the recognition of the inevitable and universal ignorance of all of us concerning a… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Here is a truism about the psychology of politicians: there is almost nothing so soul-definingly traumatic for them as losing an election.… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
“with Nelson’s connection to Cope, Chelle might have a better chance of convincing Munna to release the INUs so they could start… — Brandt Legg Copy Share Image
Napoleon the Third was not much. He died in England, and was buried in a country church-yard much the same as Kiltartan.… — Lady Gregory Copy Share Image
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“The blessing of the omnivore is that he can eat a great many different things in nature. The curse of the omnivore… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
These Arabs, the man Mahomet, and that one century, - is it not as if a spark had fallen, one spark, on… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The Jackdaw sat in the Cardinal's chair! Bishop and Abbot and Prior were there, Many a monk and many a friar, Many… — Richard Harris Barham Copy Share Image
The Vice President of Planning Commission Montek Singh said in a day are spent on food half a dollar to poor are… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life. Each lapse is like the letting… — William James Copy Share Image
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Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
If you make something, it's an artifact. It's something that somebody or some corporate entity has caused to come into being. A… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I think most people, if I asked, would say, "Yes, of course I believe." But I think for a great many of… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
“Gates should have exceeded Washington as a military leader. He had long experience in a professional army and was more loved by… — John Ferling Copy Share Image
I feel angry that I can't be hypnotized. I'm not putting it down, and I'm not saying that it doesn't exist. I… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
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