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A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.
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A genius can never expect to have a good time anywhere, if he is a genuine article, but America is about the last place in which life will be endurable at all for an inspired writer of any kind.
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A good book is the precious life-blood of the master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond.
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A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God, in his infinite mercy, has seen fit to place us, to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life, whatever it may be.
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A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate
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A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.
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A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.
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A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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A journalist is basically a chronicler, not an interpreter of events. Where else in society do you have the license to eavesdrop on so many different conversations as you have in journalism? Where else can you delve into the life of our times?
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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.
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A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.
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A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.
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A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it's starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker.
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A life lived with integrity - even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
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A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
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A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.
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