Quotes with not-so-fun

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  • Carl Gustav Jung When animus and anima meet, the animus draws his sword of power and the anima ejects her poison of illusion and seduction. The outcome need not always be negative, since the two are equally likely to fall in love (a special instance of love at first sight).
    Aion (1951)
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Samuel Johnson When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaining; but exert yourselves to hide it, and by endeavoring to hide it you drive it away.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Robert A. Heinlein When any government, or church for that matter, undertakes to say to it's subjects, this you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motive.
    Robert A. Heinlein
    American science fiction writer (1907 - 1988)
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  • Florence Griffith-Joyner When anyone tells me I can't do anything... I'm just not listening any more.
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  • Oscar Wilde When Christ says, ‘Forgive your enemies,’ it is not for the sake of the enemy, but for one’s own sake that he says so, and because love is more beautiful than hate.
    The Profundis
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Dale Carnegie When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.
    Dale Carnegie
    American writer and lecturer (1888 - 1955)
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  • Camilo Jose Cela When debts are not paid because they cannot be paid, the best thing to do is not talk about them, and shuffle the cards again.
    Journey to the Alcarria: Travels Through the Spanish Countryside (1964 edition), Atlantic Monthly Press
    Camilo Jose Cela
    Spanish writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1989) (1916 - 2002)
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  • Napoleon Hill When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Richard Brinsley Sheridan When delicate and feeling souls are separated, there is not a feature in the sky, not a movement of the elements, not an aspiration of the breeze, but hints some cause for a lover's apprehension.
    Richard Brinsley Sheridan
    Anglo-Irish dramatist (1751 - 1816)
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  • Anne Stevenson When everything is for 'fun' nothing is for the good.
    Anne Stevenson
    American-British poet and writer (1933 - 2020)
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  • Henry Ford When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • Barbara Amiel When faced with the inevitable fatigue that comes with the recycling of speeches and the recycling of thoughts in a rather small stream of vortex, I am urged to not be ashamed of recycling.
    Barbara Amiel
    British journalist, writer, and socialite (1940 - )
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  • Robert Bridges When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.
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  • George Bernard Shaw When God created man and woman, he did not take a patent. That's why any imbecile has been able to do so ever since.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Anne Lamott When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens.
    Anne Lamott
    American novelist and non-fiction writer (1954 - )
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Beth Ditto When I am made fun of in the press I just remember those days when I'd come home to find that the water had been turned off because my mother couldn't afford the bill. Suddenly, everything feels easier.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Arthur Hailey When I began writing that I was able and did travel and met some fascinating people and also uncovered some history, which has not been discovered before.
    Arthur Hailey
    British-Canadian novelist (1920 - 2004)
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  • Billy Collins When I discovered the lyric poem, that advanced not by narrative steps but by blocks and layers of imagery, I said, 'Gee, I probably could do that. So let me try that.'
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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