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The eleventh commandment, "Thou shalt not be found out" is despicable, but nevertheless, it is the one thing you can never get away from. — Emily Post
Desire creates havoc when it is the only thing between two people, or when it is what's missing. — Mignon McLaughlin
What a weird thing smoking is and I can't stop it. I feel cosy, have a sense of well-being when I'm smoking, poisoning myself, killing… — Russell Hoban
Memory is a painter. Paintin's not important. The important thing is keepin' busy. — Grandma Moses
There is such a thing as perfection...and our purpose for living is to find that perfection and show it forth....Each of us is in truth… — Richard Bach
It is the hardest thing to close the open hand of someone you love. — Luigi Pirandello
The praise that comes of love does not make us vain, but humble rather. Knowing what we are, the pride that shines in our mother's… — James M. Barrie
You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother. — Clare Boothe Luce
A traveling show visited a country town and one of the acts was advertised as a striptease. A small boy begged his mother for a… — Art Linkletter
The great thing about having a bunch of kids is that they just remind you that you're the person who takes them to go poop.… — Angelina Jolie
...Everything that is, desires to be. As we act, we unfold our being. Enjoyment naturally follows, for a thing desired always brings delight. — Dante Alighieri
What one thing could you do in your personal and professional life that, if you did on a regular basis, would make a tremendous positive… — Stephen Covey
I never let the thought of failure enter my mind. My knowledge of my unity with the Universal One and the fact that I must… — Walter Russell
Child development: Most damaging course of action is attempting to keep children from experience or protect them from pain, for it is this time that… — Leo Buscaglia
Everyone thinks that the principal thing to the tree is the fruit, but in point of fact the principal thing to it is the seed. — Friedrich Nietzsche
How can a thing possibly govern others when it cannot be governed itself? — Seneca the Younger
In like manner the effect of every action is measured by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds. The great man knew not… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?" He replied, "All poets believe it does. And in ages of imagination, this… — William Blake
The most destructive thing governments do is divide people against each other, all in competition over the reins of the state. — Anthony Gregory
Dreaming about a thing in order to do it properly is right; but dreaming about it when we should be doing it is wrong. — Oswald Chambers
Intellect helps us to see the best means and manner of doing the right thing, but intellect never shows us the right thing. — Wallace D. Wattles
Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object… — Frederic Bastiat
It is indeed a singular thing that people wish to pass laws to nullify the disagreeable consequences that the law of responsibility entails. Will they… — Frederic Bastiat
There is one good thing about Marx: he was not a Keynesian. — Murray Rothbard
There can be no such thing as 'fairness in taxation.' Taxation is nothing but organized theft, and the concept of a 'fair tax' is therefore… — Murray Rothbard

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