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  • Dag Hammarskjöld What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.
    Dag Hammarskjöld
    Swedish diplomat (1905 - 1961)
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  • William Somerset Maugham What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Paul Auster What matters is not how well you can avoid trouble, but how you cope with trouble when it comes.
    Source: The Book of Illusions (2009) 32
    Paul Auster
    American writer and film (1947 - )
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  • Richard Dawkins What matters is not the facts but how you discover and think about them.
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau What men call social virtues, good fellowship, is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter, which lie close together to keep each other warm.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Bertrand Russell What men want is not knowledge, but certainty.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Arthur Hays Sulzberger What Ottawa and Washington used to think about Turkey or Iran was not very important because we really didn't think much about either, but now what we think about them is extremely important - to ourselves and to many other peoples.
    Arthur Hays Sulzberger
    American newspaper publisher (1891 - 1968)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • J. G. Ballard What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • Wallace Stevens What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.
    Wallace Stevens
    American poet (1879 - 1955)
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  • Barbara Corcoran What people ask for has nothing to do with the value of a property. You might see a listing for $300,000 and think you should make a $250,000 bid. But hyper-focus on what the house is worth. You should know what the house is worth by looking at comparable properties. Base your bid on that.
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • Carolyn Chute What poor people go through, it's amazing they don't do more violent things! If they'd just give you a little dignity, it might help you stand it better. They suffer no heat, no electricity, while you're working, but then you've got to face all the insults, too.
    Carolyn Chute
    American writer and populist
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  • Susan Sontag What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Daniel J. Boorstin What preoccupies us, then, is not God as a fact of nature, but as a fabrication useful for a God-fearing society. God himself becomes not a power but an image.
    Daniel J. Boorstin
    American historian (1914 - 2004)
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  • Bjork What probably confuses people is they know a lot about me, but it quite pleases me that there's more they don't know.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Rosa Parks What really matters is not whether we have problems, but how we go through them. We must keep going on to make it through whatever we are facing.
    Rosa Parks
    American activist in the civil rights movement (1913 - 2005)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Seneca What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Bernie Sanders What the American people want to see in their president is somebody who not necessarily can win every fight, but they want to see him stand up and fight for what he believes, take his case to the American people.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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