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Josiah Royce
Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself.
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Unknown
The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself. Check yourself against this list of obstacles to a pleasing personality interrupting others sarcasm vanity being a poor listener insincere flattery finding fault challenging others without good cause giving unsolicited advice complaining attitude of superiority envy of others' success poor posture and dress.
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William O. Douglas
The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox: the people who challenge an existing institution or way of life, or say and do things that make people think.
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Francois Sagan
Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases.
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Lin Yutang
Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.
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Walt Whitman
I see great things in baseball. It's our game--the American game. It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us.
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Jeff Zurschmeide
And thou shalt smite thine enemy even unto the wall, gnashing thy teeth, and he shall grow small in thy mirrors.
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Agnes Repplier
There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
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William Hazlitt
There is nothing more likely to drive a person mad than...an obstinate, constitutional preference of the true to the agreeable.
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Miguel de Unamuno
Science says 'We must live,' and seeks the means of prolonging, increasing, facilitating and amplifying life, of making it tolerable and acceptable, wisdom says 'We must die,' and seeks how to make us die well.
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Johnny Carson
For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.
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Gay
By ignorance is pride increased; those must assume who know the least.
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