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My friends are my estate.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.

I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.

We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
So little time and so little to do.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.
The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
I mean, I knew that in the abstract there were terrorists somewhere in the world, but they didn't really represent any risk to me.

Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.

Feeling grateful to or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
Maybe they were terrorists!
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.

Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.

It has a lot of advantages: first of all your neighbours can never disturb you.

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
Well done is better than well said.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
Maybe they were terrorists!
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.

Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn?t hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.

You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.

Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.

Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.

I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.

Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?
As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
Feeling grateful to or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.

I'm sure that I'm a happy person: I have many friends, loving parents, goals in my life, etc.

My home is not a place, it is people.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.

For most people, alcohol is a pleasant accompaniment to social activities.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.

I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
Ask a deeply religious Christian if he?d rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don?t seem so bad lately.

For example, in Britain the weather is often rainy, summer there is quite warm, but windy.

Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

? Failure to fulfill major work, school, or home responsibilities;

I lived what most people call the good life. I was happy, but deep inside I always felt that, with the short amount of time we are given to live and love in this world, we spend too much time loving things instead of people.
His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
A joke's a very serious thing.
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.
Maybe they were terrorists!
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.

Researchers found that most managers and supervisors in one large manufacturing plant had little knowledge of the company's alcohol policy.

All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
I didn't even breathe.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.

At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.

How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children
Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
After the last of 16 mounting screws has been removed from an access cover, it will be discovered that the wrong access cover has been removed.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

Cinemas in England are usually large and more comfortable than the theatres.

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive.
Your world is made of your memories, and your memories are given to you by your world. The whispering voice of happenstance is always in our ears. 'This is the world. This is the way things are. Look. Pay attention. Remember.'
My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
Who were these clowns?

Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.

Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
The average person thinks he isn't.
I've gone into hundreds of fortune-teller's parlors, and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her.
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.

You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
You always pass failure on the way to success.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what you?re doing, or it comes out flat. You can?t fake your way through this.

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