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If we do not exert the right of eating our neighbor, it is because we have other means of making good cheer


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Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.



If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.

If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.



It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.

It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.



The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else's eyes.

The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else's eyes.



Give me the patience for the small things of life, courage for the great trials of life. Help me to do my best each day and then go to sleep knowing God is awake.

Give me the patience for the small things of life, courage for the great trials of life. Help me to do my best each day and then go to sleep knowing God is awake.



Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.

Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.



Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.



The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.

The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.



Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.



The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.

The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.





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But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy ambition, of hope more sordid than despair, of incessant passage up or down.

But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy ambition, of hope more sordid than despair, of incessant passage up or down.



In the theatre, the actor is in total control. The director wasn't in the house last night, the designer wasn't there, the author's dead. It's just us and the audience.

In the theatre, the actor is in total control. The director wasn't in the house last night, the designer wasn't there, the author's dead. It's just us and the audience.



I don't advise kids to do what I do. I'm just doing me. I just smoke a little weed and do a little drink.

I don't advise kids to do what I do. I'm just doing me. I just smoke a little weed and do a little drink.



I probably spend more time with my kids than the average stay-at-home mother.

I probably spend more time with my kids than the average stay-at-home mother.



Once we truly understand that God's will is that we be happy, we no longer feel the need to ask for anything other than that God's will be done.

Once we truly understand that God's will is that we be happy, we no longer feel the need to ask for anything other than that God's will be done.



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Money can't buy happiness but it's more comfortable to cry in a Bugatti than on a bicycle.



In my heart, my first desire was to be a dancer. I always wanted to dance and I danced from the time I was 7 till I was well into my 30s.

In my heart, my first desire was to be a dancer. I always wanted to dance and I danced from the time I was 7 till I was well into my 30s.



A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.

A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.



To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.

To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.




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