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  • Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.
  • The reason I still love performing is that people my age, a little younger and a little older, show up to relive that thing that made them so happy all those years ago. And as long as they show up, I'll keep on keepin' on till I keel over.
  • The really tough thing would have been to decide to take Woodward and Bernstein off the story. They were carrying the coal for us - in that their stories were right.
  • I've tried as much as possible to avoid the standard nine-to-five thing. I've tried to organize my life so that I can move around, change the rhythm and the tempo.
  • A mathematical proof is beautiful, but when you're finished, it's really only about one thing. A story can be about many things.
  • That's the thing, when you play younger characters they're always less casual. You're hungrier or more naive. Those things wane in time.
  • The thing I love most about acting is that your capacity evolves as you evolve as a human being.
  • The world must be filled with unsuccessful musical careers like mine, and it's probably a good thing. We don't need a lot of bad musicians filling the air with unnecessary sounds. Some of the professionals are bad enough.
  • There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.
  • We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead.
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  • Jiddu Krishnamurti Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.
    Jiddu Krishnamurti
    Indian theosophist (1895 - 1986)
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  • W. Clement Stone Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
    W. Clement Stone
    American businessman and author (1902 - 2002)
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  • Francis Maitland Balfour The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.
    Francis Maitland Balfour
    British biologist (1851 - 1882)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bette Davis Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • André Maurois Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.
    André Maurois
    French writer (ps. van mile Herzog) (1885 - 1967)
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  • Socrates One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Samuel Smiles ''Where there is a will there is a way.'' is an old true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very resolution often scales the barriers to it, and secures its achievement. To think we are able, is almost to be so - to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • Henry Ford Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • Erica Jong Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
    Erica Jong
    American author (1942 - )
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  • Muhammad Ali Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
    Muhammad Ali
    American Boxer (1942 - 2016)
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  • Benjamin Franklin If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Juvenal Nature never says one thing and wisdom another.
    Juvenal
    Roman poet
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  • Maggie Kuhn Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.
    Maggie Kuhn
    American activist (1905 - 1995)
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  • E. M. Cioran Show me one thing here on earth which has begun well and not ended badly. The proudest palpitations are engulfed in a sewer, where they cease throbbing, as though having reached their natural term: this downfall constitutes the heart's drama and the negative meaning of history.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Georges Bataille A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is at ease only at the moment when everyone is shouting at once and no one can hear a thing.
    Georges Bataille
    French writer and critic (1897 - 1962)
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  • Thomas Paine A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Elbert Hubbard A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Marilyn Monroe A sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing.
    Marilyn Monroe
    American actress (1926 - 1962)
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  • John Keats A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
    Endymion (1818) I, 1
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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