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Quintilian
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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Dr. Karl Menninger
Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible.
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Brendan Behan
If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.
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Agnes de Mille
Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how…We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
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Taylor Benson
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
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Ernest Hemingway, in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech
For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.
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Barbara Kingsolver, "Life Without Go-Go Boots" (personal essay)
High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes. It can no longer be of concern to great powers alone. For a nuclear disaster, spread by winds and waters and fear, could well engulf the great and the small, the rich and the poor, the committed and the uncommitted alike. Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.
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G. C. Lichtenberg
He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage he won't encounter many rivals.
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Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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Voltaire, Candide
Optimism is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.
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