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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 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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When a village ceases to be a community, it becomes oppressive in its narrow conformity. So one becomes an individual and migrates to the city. There, finding others like-minded, one re-establishes a village community. Nowadays only New Yorkers are yokels.
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When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.
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Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe.
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Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.
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Words can have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbit and enter a wider magnetic field. No one owns them or has a proprietary right to dictate how they will be used.
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Worry not that no one knows of you; seek to be worth knowing.
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Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.
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An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
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