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Human beings have an almost unlimited capacity for self-delusion. We can justify any amount of sadness if it fits our own particular standard of reality. — John Twelve Hawks
If the ordinary wage-earner worked four hours a day, there would be enough for everybody and no unemployment -- assuming a certain very moderate amount… — Bertrand Russell
In a world in which there is so much to interest, so much to enjoy, and so much also to correct and improve, everyone who… — John Stuart Mill
While it is always possible to wake a person who's sleeping, no amount of noise will wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. — Jonathan Safran Foer
He was too young to know that, in any novel with a reasonable amount of forethought, there were no coincidences. — John Irving
It is a peculiarity of knitters that they chronically underestimate the amount of time it takes to knit something. Birthday on Saturday? No problem. Socks… — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which… — Abraham Joshua Heschel
I always tend to assume there's an infinite amount of money out there." There might as well be, "Arsibalt said, "but most of it gets… — Neal Stephenson
I think anorexia is a metaphor. It is a young woman's statement that she will become what the culture asks of its women, which is… — Mary Pipher
and never really thought I'd amount to anything. It was precisely what I wanted the whole world to think; then I could sneak in, if… — Jack Kerouac
People are starving for love, not knowing their heart is a magical kitchen. Open your heart. Open your magical kitchen and refuse to walk around… — Miguel Angel Ruiz
In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely because the tyranny… — John Stuart Mill
7 x 7 + love = An amount Infinitely above: 7 x 7 - love. — Langston Hughes
Maybe we ought to look at a guy's response to our microwave from now on." Aunt Annie said. Really." Mom said. "The narcissist looks at… — Deb Caletti
Because Iâ€™ve lost my children, too, and I know the ache that lives inside the heart that no amount of solace or alcohol will squelch.… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
But even with my minimal amount of fame, there are certain perks. Recently, I was at a movie premier, and at the party after the… — Augusten Burroughs
Iâ€™m giving you that chance now. (Stryker) Itâ€™s too late. Too many centuries have passed. There was a time when I lived only to hear… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
In so far as it takes effect at all, pacifist propaganda can only be effective against those countries where a certain amount of freedom of… — George Orwell
He was bored now when Emma suddenly began to sob on his breast; and his heart, like the people who can only stand a certain… — Gustave Flaubert
Why spend the afternoon making a meal that will be gone in an hour," she'd ask us, "when in the same amount of time, I… — Jeannette Walls

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