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Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
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.
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.

Where facts are few, experts are many.

The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
The engine died and then the doors swung open.
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

Who were these clowns?
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

The morning may be warm and the evening may be cool.

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.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

More than one-half of the 294 workers attended the sessions. Researchers based their results on data from 120 employees who completed prestudy and poststudy evaluations.

A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
The crowd gives the leader new strength.
Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.
Nothing is said that has not been said before.

Also he gave me some sulfa pills, a slip for X-Ray and blood examination.

I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
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.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Some 230 kinds of birds live in Britain, and another 200 are regular visitors, many are songbirds.

To try to be better is to be better.
The car skidded to a stop just in front of me, and I jumped back and lost my balance and ended up on the road.
They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

Well done is better than well said.
We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

In 1948 the Republican party was supremely confident of defeating Roosevelt's successor, Harry S. Truman.

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
Walking is man's best medicine.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.

When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.
Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty... Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those words.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.

'Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop backwards into today's, and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow.

Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
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.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
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.
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.

Bush secured the presidency with a victory in the electoral college when he won Florida by an extremely narrow margin and outlasted Gore's unsuccessful court challenge of the Florida vote-counting process.

Is there life before death?
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
I never know how much of what I say is true.
I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
Our lives teach us who we are.

Several million more adults engage in risky drinking patterns that could lead to alcohol problems.

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
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.
We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.
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.
Keep cool and you command everybody.

When I was fifteen I was fond of reading too.

I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.

Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.

I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.
Facts are the enemy of truth.
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

The first voyage was to a strange country Lilliput.

Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.
Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .

Here there are a lot of things that make this room look nice; she has a lot of toys which sit on her bed, on the shelves and on the windowsill. She collects statues of cats that she brings from different countries, it characterizes her as a broad-minded p

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
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.
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.

Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty... Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those words.

I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
You're dealing with the demon of external validation. You can't beat external validation. You want to know why? Because it feels sooo good.
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.

That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.'
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

All these cards are brightly and coloured.

You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
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.
This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
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?
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
A joke's a very serious thing.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

So little time and so little to do.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
The hands behind me gave me another shove.
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.
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
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.
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.

The opening of the Suez Canal in 1869 made the Red Sea one of the chief shipping routes connecting Europe with East Asia and Australia.

There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.

Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.

Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.

These books excite my imagination. I think I devote much time to reading.

They can conquer who believe they can.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
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.

You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.

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