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  • Ben Elton People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.
    Ben Elton
    British-Australian comedian, author, playwright, actor and director (1959 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde People who love only once in their lives are shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Bill Allred People who read my magazine wax their turtles all the time. - as Larry Flynt
    Source: Radio From Hell (November 1, 2006)
    Bill Allred
    American musician (1936 - )
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  • Maxwell Maltz People who say that life is not worthwhile are really saying that they themselves have no personal goals which are worthwhile. Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project. Always have something ahead of you to ''look forward to'' - to work for and hope for.
    Maxwell Maltz
    American surgeon and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • Raoul Vaneigem People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth.
    Raoul Vaneigem
    Belgian philosopher (1934 - )
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  • Marcel Proust People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Antonio Tabucchi People with lots of doubts sometimes find life more oppressive and exhausting than others, but they're more energetic - they aren't robots.
    Antonio Tabucchi
    Italian writer and academic (1943 - )
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  • Stephen Hawking People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.
    Source: The Guardian (27 september 2005)
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Edward Franklin Albee III People would rather sleep their way through life than stay awake for it.
    Edward Franklin Albee III
    American playwright (1928 - 2016)
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  • Barry Marshall Peptic ulcers became more common in the 20th century at the same time that these theories of Freud and other psychoanalysts became popular. And somehow those meshed, and this tradition emerged that ulcers were caused by stress or turmoil in one's life.
    Barry Marshall
    Australian physician, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology (1951 - )
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  • William Somerset Maugham Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Voltaire Perfection is attained by slow degrees; she requires the hand of time.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Joseph Hall Perfection is the child of time.
    Joseph Hall
    English bishop and satirist (1574 - 1656)
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  • John Banville Perhaps all of life is no more than a long preparation for the leaving of it.
    Source: De zee (2008) 98
    John Banville
    Irish writer (1945 - )
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman Perhaps by this time the 14th century was not quite sane. If enlightened self-interest is the criterion of sanity, in the verdict of Michelet, no epoch was more naturally mad.
    Source: A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Aldous Huxley Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Joseph Conrad Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Bill Forsyth Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was, that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of life, problems and terrors.
    Bill Forsyth
    Scottish film director and writer (1946 - )
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  • Albert J. Nock Perhaps one reason for the falling-off of belief in a continuance of conscious existence is to be found in the quality of life that most of us lead. There is not much in it with which, in any kind of reason, one can associate the idea of immortality.
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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