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  • Barry Ritholtz Shopmas now begins on Thanksgiving Day. Apparently, escaping the families you cannot stand to spend another minute with on Thanksgiving Day to go buy them gifts is how some Americans show their affection for one another. Weird.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Joan Didion Short stories demand a certain awareness of one's own intentions, a certain narrowing of the focus.
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    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Kahlil Gibran Should we all confess our sins to one another we would all laugh at one another for our lack of originality.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Seneca Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Lord George Byron Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • William Hazlitt Silence is one great art of conversation. He is not a fool who knows when to hold his tongue; and a person may gain credit for sense, eloquence, wit, who merely says nothing to lessen the opinion which others have of these qualities in themselves.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Josh Billings Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Phyllis Mcginley Sin has always been an ugly word, but it has been made so in a new sense over the last half-century. It has been made not only ugly but passé. People are no longer sinful, they are only immature or underprivileged or frightened or, more particularly, sick.
    Phyllis Mcginley
    American poet and author (1905 - 1978)
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  • Bill Hybels Sin is plenty strong enough to create an ever-widening gap in one's relationship with God. The wider the gap, the less likely we are to pray. And the less we pray, the wider the gap becomes.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Henry Miller Sin, guilt, neurosis -they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Bill Buford Since 1890, the Tour d'Argent's basic recipe hasn't changed. If you find yourself at the restaurant tomorrow, you will eat duck in the confidence that it was what someone ate a hundred years ago. You will eat it in the expectation that someone else will be served it a hundred years from now.
    Bill Buford
    American author and journalist
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  • Emma Goldman Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other.
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • Calvin Harris Since I was 14, I wanted to make music, but I think I would also have made a good policeman. When I was eight, I wanted to be one so I could tell people off.
    Calvin Harris
    Scottish DJ, record producer, singer, and songwriter (1984 - )
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  • Machiavelli Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.
    Machiavelli
    Florentine state philosopher (1469 - 1527)
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  • Alan Cohen Since you are the one who has to live with your choices, be sure they are your own.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Benjamin Stillingfleet Sincerity and honesty carry one through many difficulties which all the arts he can invent would never help him through.
    Benjamin Stillingfleet
    British botanist, translator and author (1702 - 1771)
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  • Barry Cornwall Sing! Who sings To her who weareth a hundred rings? Ah, who is this lady fine? The Vine, boys, the Vine! The mother of the mighty Wine, A roamer is she O'er wall and tree And sometimes very good company.
    Barry Cornwall
    English poet (pen name of Bryan Procter) (1787 - 1874)
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  • Brandi Carlile Singing is a form of meditation... apparently the only one that I have command over.
    Brandi Carlile
    American singer-songwriter and producer (1981 - )
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  • Jane Austen Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • John D. Rockefeller Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.
    John D. Rockefeller
    American industrialist: founder Exxon (1839 - 1937)
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