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There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.
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There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.
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They are the successive perceptions only, that constitute the mind; nor have we the most distant notion of the place, where these scenes are represented, or of the materials, of which it is compos’d
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They were evidently small men, all wind and quibbles, flinging out their chuffy grain to us with far less interest than a farm-wife feels as she scatters corn to her fowls.
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Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.
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This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.
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Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.
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Thus we feign the continu’d existence of the perceptions of our senses, to remove the interruption; and run into the notion of a soul, and self, and substance, to disguise the variation.
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Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.
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To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.
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To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.
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To fight fear, act. To increase fear - wait, put off postpone.
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To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.
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To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.
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To inherit property is not to be born - it is to be still-born, rather.
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To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.
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To make someone an icon is to make him an abstraction, and abstractions are incapable of vital communication with living people.
Consider the Lobster (2005) 157
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