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I take a ridiculous pleasure in what I eat and drink. It comes partly from being a bachelor, but mostly from a habit of taking… — Ian Fleming
Englishmen are so odd. They are like a nest of Chinese boxes. It takes a very long time to get to the centre of them.… — Ian Fleming
My painting is visible images which conceal nothing... they evoke mystery and indeed when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple… — Rene Magritte
When one ceases from conflict, whether because he has won, because he has lost, or because he cares no more for the game, the virtue… — Charles Horton Cooley
... it's simply wrong to always order [kids] to stop that fighting. There are times when one child is simply defending his rights and damned… — Erma Bombeck
Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered. — Marilyn Monroe
[I] learned ... that friends are a good source of food and soul when one has not yet gotten the hang of cooking or living… — Marya Hornbacher
"All conditioned things are impermanent" - when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering. — Gautama Buddha
When one, abandoning greed, feels no greed for what would merit greed, greed gets shed from him - like a drop of water from a… — Gautama Buddha
When one is overcome by this wretched, clinging desire in the world, one's sorrows increase like grass growing up after a lot of rain. — Gautama Buddha
But when one masters this wretched desire, which is so hard to overcome, then one's sorrows just drop off, like a drop of water off… — Gautama Buddha
When one door closes another opens but all too often there is a long hallway in between. — Rick Jarow
And when one of them meets the other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of… — Plato
To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know. — Socrates
We are left with the feeling that the church has overdone it, no matter how you cut it, and that homosexuals have certainly suffered more… — Paul King Jewett
To fear death is nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not. For it is to think one knows what one does… — Socrates
We have tried everything to get rid of suffering. We have gone everywhere to get rid of suffering. We have bought everything to get rid… — Gangaji
When one feels no shame in telling a deliberate lie, there is no evil, I tell you, he will not do. — Gautama Buddha
Privilege exists when one group has something of value that is denied to others simply because of the groups they belong to, rather than because… — Peggy McIntosh
There was always a way, when one knew what one wanted. — Donna Woolfolk Cross

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