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There is no passion to be found in playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
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There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves.
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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals, which thus rise above reason, and yet fall infinitely short of it.
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There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and flattens the stomachs.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch.
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty.
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There may be a new album, and there may not. Right now, we're encouraging bootlegging because there have been some great live things that ended up on the Internet. Rather than try to stop it, we like it. If nobody gave a crap about you, they wouldn't bother to bootleg you.
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task the reader more than any other exercise which the customs of the day esteem. It requires a training such as the athletes underwent, the steady intention almost of the whole life to this object.
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Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
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Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.
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We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in the social, our historic passions have withdrawn into the glow of an artificial coziness, and our half-closed eyes now seek little other than the peaceful parade of television pictures.
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We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.
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Well done, is better than well said.
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Were we as eloquent as angels we still would please people much more by listening rather than talking.
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