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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping… — William James
Many ideas have struggled over the centuries to dominate the planet. Fascism. Communism. Democracy. Religion. But only one has achieved total supremacy. Its compulsive attractions… — Jonathon Porritt
There is no point in being overwhelmed by the appalling total of human sufferring; such a total does not exist. Neither poverty nor pain is… — Jorge Luis Borges
Proust again: One can only wish that a man with such powers of total recall had led a less tedious life, moved among somewhat livelier… — Edward Abbey
It is possible for a dictator to govern in a liberal way. And it is also possible for a democracy to govern with a total… — Friedrich August von Hayek
Liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals. — Samuel Adams
Madonna has total control over her life, and not many women have that — Monica Seles
Where I used to strive for movement and restlessness I now attempt to sense and express the complete total calm of objects and the surrounding… — Lyonel Feininger
That's beautiful: the hurrah game! well â€” it's our game: that's the chief fact in connection with it: America's game: has the snap, go fling,… — Walt Whitman
It is only of life on Earth, however, that one can speak with any certainty. It seems to me that all life on Earth, the… — Clifford D. Simak
We are the total of our longings. — Guy Gavriel Kay
I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation.... — Tyra Banks
Short stories consume you faster. They're connected to brevity. With the short story, you are up against mortality. I know how tough they are as… — Ali Smith
India must achieve the real goal?that is energy independence or an economy which will function well within total freedom from oil, gas or coal imports. — Abdul Kalam
A massage is just like a movie, really relaxing and a total escape, except in a massage you're the star. And you don't miss anything… — Elizabeth Jane Howard
It is not larger, cleaner cages that justice demands...but empty cages; not traditional animal agriculture but a complete end to all commerce in the flesh… — Tom Regan
Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it's about experience, it's about participation, it is something more… — Daniel Libeskind
We all create the person we become by our choices as we go through life. In a real sense, by the time we are adults,… — Eleanor Roosevelt
He had no further intercourse with Spirits, but lived upon the Total Abstinence Principle, ever afterwards; and it was always said of him, that he… — Herbert Kalmus
One of the keys to thinking big is total focus. I think of it almost as a controlled neurosis, which is a quality I've noticed… — Donald Trump

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