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Eric Hoffer
To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes - we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.
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Antisthenes
Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.
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Barbara Mikkelson
Perhaps better we not obscure the idea that happiness and misery, kindness and greed, and good works and bad deeds are within the capacities of us all, not merely a select few.
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Alessandro Pronzato
The best way not to have people in your way is to let them into your heart.
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George Eliot
We ust find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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Frank Boyden
If I take refuge in ambiguity, I can assure you that it's quite conscious.
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Shusha Guppy
The verb 'to love' in Persian is 'to have a friend.' 'I love you' translated literally is 'I have you as a friend,' and 'I don't like you' simply means 'I don't have you as a friend.'
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Lois McMaster Bujold
His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.
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Robert Townsend
When you get right down to it, one of the most important tasks of a leader is to eliminate his people's excuse for failure.
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we open and shut our eyes.
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Quentin Crisp
Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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Agnes Repplier
There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
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