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The vanity of loving fine clothes and new fashion, and placing value on ourselves by them is one of the most childish pieces of folly.
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Their sighing , canting , grace-proud faces, their three-mile prayers, and half-mile graces.
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There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
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There are. intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters.
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There is a totalitarian regime inside every one of us. We are ruled by a ruthless politburo which sets our norms and drives us from one five-year plan to another. The autonomous individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.
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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision, and for whom the lighting of every cigar, the drinking of every cup, the time of rising and going to bed every day, and the beginning of every bit of work, are subjects of express volitional deliberation.
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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 one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.
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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
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There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
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There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.
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There's nineteen men livin' in my neighborhood, Eighteen of them are fools and the one ain't no doggone good.
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This is a cause that musicians can take to heart because one of our main reasons for being is to share our music with other people, and this takes us to people who probably wouldn't otherwise get to hear music on quite this level.
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Throughout this primary process the voters have vetted each candidate and after a spirited contest they have made clear who they believe is right person to lead our ticket and that is Governor Mitt Romney. I believe they have come to this conclusion because they know that Governor Romney will begin working on day one to turn around our economy.
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To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting.
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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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True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
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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 who are about to die, are going to take one hell of a lot of the bastards with us.
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We women manage to do many things at the same time. Men, no. Men do one thing at a time.
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