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- Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge.
- we are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason. but we cannot just walk…
- The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.
- What a test that is: more than devotion, admiration, passion. If you long and long for someone’s company you love them.
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- . . . a basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.… — Norman Vincent Peale
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
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- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams