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  • Barbara Ehrenreich The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been spent on something more pleasurable, like taking the kids to movies and theme parks.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Philip Roth The only obsession everyone wants: 'love.' People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you're whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You're whole, and then you're cracked open.
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • W. H. Auden The only way to spend New Year's Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left in tears.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Theodore I. Rubin The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.
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  • Roger Simon The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld The shame that arises from praise which we do not deserve often makes us do things we should otherwise never have attempted.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Ali Smith The whole point is, we can forget. It’s important that we forget some things. Otherwise we’d go round the world carrying a hodload of stuff we just don’t need.
    Ali Smith
    Scottish author, playwright and journalist (1962 - )
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  • Miguel de Cervantes There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously removes or at least alleviates the sorrow that men would otherwise feel for the death of friends.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Benjamin Franklin There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Fran Lebowitz There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.
    Fran Lebowitz
    American journalist (1950 - )
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it?
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Bryan Singer There's no point in making films unless you intend to show us something special, otherwise just go out and watch a play.
    Bryan Singer
    American director, producer and writer (1965 - )
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  • Francis Bacon This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Bernard Malamud Thoreau gave an otherwise hidden passion and drew from woods and water the love affair with earth and sky he'd recorded in his journals.
    Bernard Malamud
    American novelist (1914 - 1986)
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  • Buddha To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • B. F. Skinner To require a citizen to sign a loyalty oath is to destroy some of the loyalty he could otherwise claim, since any subsequent loyal behavior may then be attributed to the oath.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Baba Kalyani We are a heterogeneous society. We have to accept that. Growth has to be such that the most backward sections also benefit from it. Otherwise, it will be a very imbalanced growth.
    Baba Kalyani
    Indian businessman (1949 - )
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  • Natalie Clifford Barney We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise.
    Natalie Clifford Barney
    American-born French author (1876 - 1972)
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  • Karl Popper We may admit that our groping is often inspired, but we must be on our guard against the belief, however deeply felt, that our inspiration carries any authority, divine or otherwise.
    Karl Popper
    Austrian-British philosopher and professor (1902 - 1994)
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  • Alain de Botton We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us.
    Alain de Botton
    Swiss-born British author (1969 - )
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