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The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.
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We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.
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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
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When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing.
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Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions.
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Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
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''Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it,'' said the Philosopher.
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''Where there is a will there is a way.'' is an old true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very resolution often scales the barriers to it, and secures its achievement. To think we are able, is almost to be so - to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself.
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2005 opens with the promise of a number of substantial direct private investments that can swiftly transform the economy and set all sectors on a pronounced upward curve.
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A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.
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A cigarette is a pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end and a fool at the other.
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A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?
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A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes all other forms of law.
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A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
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A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.
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A good cause can become bad if we fight for it with means that are indiscriminately murderous. A bad cause can become good if enough people fight for it in a spirit of comradeship and self-sacrifice. In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad.
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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.
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A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.
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A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
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