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Someone once said, 'Adversity introduces a man to himself.' For some reason, that's scary, but most people discover that adversity does make them stronger.
— Max Cleland
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Passion and marriage are essentially irreconcilable. Their origins and their ends make them mutually exclusive. Their co-existence in our midst constantly raises insoluble problems, and…
— Denis de Rougemont
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Make them think they've been fooled by a gentlemen.
— Howard Thurston
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There are two main strategies we can try to improve the quality of life. The first is to try making external conditions match our goals.…
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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We encourage others to find a local Earth raper and make them pay for the damages they are inflicting on our communities... Furriers, meat packers,…
— Craig Rosebraugh
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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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I wonder, only in passing, whether the indelible ornamentation that man inscribes upon his own epidermis does not respond to a nostalgia for the universal…
— Roger Caillois
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I don't remember my father reading to me, but I remember him telling me bedtime stories. I got to pick what was in them, and…
— Caroline Kennedy
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We're a strange animal, so often destroying what we love for selfish ends, and yet tantalized by the sense that there are other choices if…
— Roland Joffe
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In its jolly mission to expose the dark underbelly of the children’s book world, Wild Things! turns up stories I’ve been hearing noised about for…
— Paul O. Zelinsky
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A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great originality.
— Yann Martel
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The Maze is a painting of the inside of my skull, which I painted when I was in England as a patient in Maudsley and…
— William Kurelek
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The thought of continually eating something like macaroni, spat out by machinery, fills me with fear and revulsion, so I make macaroni sculptures. I make…
— Yayoi Kusama
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The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you…
— Billy Sunday
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Blaming things on the past does not make them better.
— Nelson Mandela
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No matter whether you are a physician, a teacher, or a clergyman, if you can give increase of life to others and make them sensible…
— Wallace D. Wattles
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It's all about finding and hiring people smarter than you. Getting them to join your business. And giving them good work. Then getting out of…
— Richard Branson
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Change the voices in your head. Make them like you instead.
— Pink
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There’s nothing in the world worse than having an opportunity that you’re not prepared for. Good luck usually follows the collision of opportunity and preparation…
— Quincy Jones
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When everyone in America knows you're in a dreadful position, admit you're in a dreadful position. Don't lie about it and make them roll their…
— Peggy Noonan
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