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We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.
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We worship not the Graces, nor the Parcae, but Fashion. She spins and weaves and cuts with full authority. The head monkey at Paris puts on a traveler's cap, and all the monkeys in America do the same.
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We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981) -
We're living through a time where we are fighting wars fostered by politics, admittedly not on the same scale as the First World War, but with equally tragic realities for our soldiers and their families.
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What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid.
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What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.
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What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights.
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What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?
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What fates impose, that men must needs abide; It boots not to resist both wind and tide.
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What I say now is that the way the world underestimates me will be my greatest weapon. People pat me on the head, and I go to myself, oh, and aren't they going to be surprised.
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What I'm dealing with is sound. I don't pretend to be dealing with music. I'm just dealing with sound elements, textures and sounds.
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What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?
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What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic.
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What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
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When a village ceases to be a community, it becomes oppressive in its narrow conformity. So one becomes an individual and migrates to the city. There, finding others like-minded, one re-establishes a village community. Nowadays only New Yorkers are yokels.
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When he to whom a person speaks does not understand, and he who speaks does not understand himself, that is metaphysics.
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