Quotes 4501 till 4520 of 4548.
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Character is the result of two things: Mental attitude and the way we spend our time.
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Dentist: A prestidigitator who, putting metal into your mouth, pulls coins out of your pocket.
The Devil's Dictionary -
Erudition. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.
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Fatigue dulls the pain, but awakes enticing thoughts of death. So! that is the way in which you are tempted to overcome your loneliness - by making the ultimate escape from life. - No! It may be that death is to be your ultimate gift to life: it must not be an act of treachery against it.
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I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
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I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory.
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I love the way people talk crap. I hear it all the time. 'Overrated.' 'You suck.' I'll just do something to shut them up, like, 'I'll show you.'
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I spent my whole life figuring out how to get out of work. I would say I was intelligent, but intelligent in a very surreptitious, invisible way.
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If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.
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If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.
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If you are going to be serving a living thing, you have to honor that living thing with some kind of care and thought and preparation to rationalize the taking of that life in some way. Where if you're just grinding up hamburger at McDonald's, I see that as a bit of an affront to living things.
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If you want to read a perfect book there is only one way: write it.
Epigrams (1911) p.353 -
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
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In spite of the seven thousand books of expert advice, the right way to discipline a child is still a mystery to most fathers and... mothers. Only your grandmother and Ghengis Khan know how to do it.
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Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
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Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
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Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.
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Memory is like a purse, if it be over-full that it cannot shut, all will drop out of it. Take heed of a gluttonous curiosity to feed on many things, lest the greediness of the appetite of thy memory spoil the digestion thereof.
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My reading of history convinces me that most bad government has grown out of too much government.
Thomas Jefferson 49 -
Never allow your own sorrow to absorb you, but seek out another to console, and you will find consolation.
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