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If you want to be happy, set yourself a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes. Happiness is within you.… — Dale Carnegie
Gold was not altogether certain what, anatomically, a gorge was, but he knew that his was rising. — Joseph Heller
Both in the lower and the middle classes the wiseacres urge young men 'to think it over' before taking the decisive step. Thus they foster… — Denis de Rougemont
I'm a woman of a certain age who doesn't have kids and never really settled down ... I enjoy kids but not for long periods.… — Kim Cattrall
That's what this thing called Christian life is all about, isn't it. Going . . . yet not knowing. As followers of our Lord we… — Charles R. Swindoll
I have but nothing to say to young girls. They're fine to look at, in the way I would look at a case filled with… — Harlan Ellison
Certain women should be struck regularly, like gongs. — Noel Coward
While nothing is more uncertain than a single life, nothing is more certain than the average duration of a thousand lives. — Unknown Author
[Envy not for...] Whatever difference there may appear to be in men's fortunes, there is still a certain compensation of good and ill in all,… — Pierre Charron
Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain subjective, negative, ungrateful way. — Edward de Bono
...Gratitude transforms the torment of memory of good things now gone into silent joy. One bears what was lovely in the past not as a… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
There is no other Parliament like the English. For the ordinary man, elected to any senate, from Perisa to Peru, they may be a certain… — Josiah Wedgwood
I recollected one story there was in the village, how that on a certain night in the year (it might be that very night for… — Charles Dickens
Every government is perpetually degenerating towards corruption, from which it must be rescued at certain periods by the resuscitation of its first principles, and the… — Samuel Johnson
We know the surrealist solution: concrete irrationality, objective risk. Poetry is the conquest, the only possible conquest, of the 'supreme position', 'a certain position of… — Albert Camus
When in doubt, observe and ask questions. When certain, observe at length and ask many more questions. — George S. Patton
Those who say they dislike dogma, or 'certainty', tend to be liars, hypocrites, or simply wrong. What they really dislike is the dogma of those… — Jonah Goldberg
Geniuses of certain kinds - mathematicians, chess players, computer programmers - seem, if not mad, at least lacking in the social skills most easily identified… — James Gleick
To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it. — Richard Miller
Living creatures possess a moving soul and a certain spiritual superiority which in this respect make them similar to those who possess intellect (people) and… — Nahmanides

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