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Whenever your well-being feels at risk around certain people, make a tactful and swift exit. — Judith Orloff
To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been said. — William Hazlitt
When we are certain that the way to accomplish our own wishes is to help others, we have no regrets. — Sakyong Mipham
It is well-known that those who have charge of young infants, that it is difficult to feel sure when certain movements about their mouths are… — Charles Darwin
The most certain sign of wisdom is continual cheerfulness; her state is like the things above the moon, always clear and serene. — Michel de Montaigne
It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable. — Arnold Bennett
It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living. — Bertrand Russell
Men achieve a certain greatness unawares when working to another aim. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are certain things that are fundamental to human fulfillment. The essence of these needs is captured in the phrase 'to live, to love, to… — Stephen Covey
One of the surest evidences of an elevated taste is the power of enjoying works of impassioned terrorism, in poetry, and painting. The man who… — Benjamin Haydon
It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion of the ancient Jewish book… — William Butler Yeats
This very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Certain people give off positive energy, others negative. It's the quality of someone's being, a measure of the love with which they've led their lives.… — Judith Orloff
Come Sleep! Oh Sleep, the certain knot of peace, the baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, the poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, the… — Philip Sidney
To me it seems certain that the fatalistic teachings of Muhammad and the utter degradation of women is the outstanding cause for the arrested development… — George S. Patton
If a man isn't a certain age, he just isn't interesting. — Marilyn Monroe
Another diversity of Methods is according to the subject or matter which is handled; for there is a great difference in delivery of the Mathematics,… — Francis Bacon
You think that your silence on certain topics, perhaps in the face of injustice, or unkindness, or mean-spiritedness, causes others to reserve judgement of you.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A child can be taught not to do certain things, such as touch a hot stove, pull lamps off of tables, and wake Mommy before… — Joan Rivers
It is fatal to know too much at the outcome: boredom comes as quickly to the traveler who knows his route as to the novelist… — Paul Theroux

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