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Jesus called fishermen, not graduates of rabbinical schools. The main requirement was to be natural and sincere. — Jim Cymbala
The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness,… — Bertrand Russell
Would you like to see the menu?" he said, "or would you like meet the Dish of the Day?" ... “Good evening,” it lowed and… — Douglas Adams
Human beings may be miserable specimens, in the main, but we can learn, and, through learning, become decent people. — Orson Scott Card
Thanks to their decreased brainpower, people aren't diverted from the main business of life by the hobgoblins of opinion anymore. — Kurt Vonnegut
A culture's ability to understand the world and itself is critical to its survival. But today we are led into the arena of public debate… — George Saunders
Men and women walked casually about as they did on the main floor, every now and then stopping one another, exchanging pleasantries or scraps of… — Robert Ludlum
Pundits are always blaming TV for making people stupid, movies for desensitizing the world to violence, and rock music for making kids take drugs and… — Chuck Klosterman
I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must attend to in… — Henry David Thoreau
The main thing you got to remember is that everything in the world is a hustle. — Alex Haley
Better to work for yourself alone. You do as you like and follow your own ideas, you admire yourself and please yourself: isn’t that the… — Gustave Flaubert
In here, the human bosom -- mine, yours, everybody's -- there isn't just one soul. There's a lot of souls. But there are two main… — Saul Bellow
We got through all of Genesis and part of Exodus before I left. One of the main things I was taught from this was not… — Stephen Hawking
Modern man has transformed himself into a commodity; he experiences his life energy as an investment with which he should make the highest profit, considering… — Erich Fromm
Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away. — John Steinbeck
These are the three main diseases of this country, sir: typhoid, cholera, and election fever. This last one is the worst; it makes people talk… — Aravind Adiga
The main thing in one's own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry. — Maya Angelou
To see and know the worst is to take from Fear her main advantage. — Charlotte Bronte
I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else… — Michel Foucault
In general she had found that the main drawback in being a man was that conversations were less interesting. — Ursula K. Le Guin
Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for? — J M Coetzee
I've about decided that's the main thing that separates happy people from the other people: the feeling that you're a practical item, with a use,… — Barbara Kingsolver
The main question to a novel is -- did it amuse? were you surprised at dinner coming so soon? did you mistake eleven for ten?… — Sydney Smith
The public health authorities never mention the main reason many Americans have for smoking heavily, which is that smoking is a fairly sure, fairly honorable… — Kurt Vonnegut
The main difference between marketing and fraud is that criminals have to pay for their own alcohol. — Scott Adams

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