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I think well-read people - the world is open to them.
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I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
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If we desire a society of peace, then we cannot achieve such a society through violence. If we desire a society without discrimination, then we must not discriminate against anyone in the process of building this society. If we desire a society that is democratic, then democracy must become a means as well as an end.
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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.
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In the affluent society no useful distinction can be made between luxuries and necessaries.
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It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness - calling their denial knowledge.
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It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.
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Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
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No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need people to bear witness against our inner judge, who keeps book on our shortcomings and transgressions. We need people to convince us that we are not as bad as we think we are.
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No more we meet in yonder bowers Absence has made me prone to roving; But older, firmer hearts than ours, Have found monotony in loving.
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Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.
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Oddly enough, I have really bad stage fright - getting up in front of people. And I made a living going on live television.
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One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
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Prostitution, when unmotivated by economic need, might well be defined as a species of psychological addiction, built on self-hatred through repetitions of the act of sale by which a whore is defined.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.
― Bernard M. Baruch
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The amelioration of the world cannot be achieved by sacrifices in moments of crisis; it depends on the efforts made and constantly repeated during the humdrum, uninspiring periods, which separate one crisis from another, and of which normal lives mainly consist.
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The key to good management is keeping the nine guys who hate your guts away from the nine guys who haven't made up their minds.
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The most prolific period of pessimism comes at twenty-one or thereabouts, when the first attempt is made to translate dreams into reality.
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The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.
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