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The well-adjusted make poor prophets.


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The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.



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Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.



The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.

The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.



I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.

I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.



I can never forget that one of the most gifted, best educated nations in the world, of its own free will, surrendered its fate into the hands of a maniac.

I can never forget that one of the most gifted, best educated nations in the world, of its own free will, surrendered its fate into the hands of a maniac.



The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.

The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.



We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.

We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.



Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.



Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity.

Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity.



When hopes and dreams are loose in the streets, it is well for the timid to lock doors, shutter windows and lie low until the wrath has passed.

When hopes and dreams are loose in the streets, it is well for the timid to lock doors, shutter windows and lie low until the wrath has passed.





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When people write to me with stories, they are never ones that work for me. There's something mysterious about which ones catch you.



I would urge all bands that say they only care about credibility and don't care about money to send Gene Simmons every dollar that they don't want. I'd be happy to take it off them.

I would urge all bands that say they only care about credibility and don't care about money to send Gene Simmons every dollar that they don't want. I'd be happy to take it off them.



But she woke up just then, and in the moonlight covered herself with a blanket. She smiled at him drowsily and called him "Yero, my hero," and that melted his heart.

But she woke up just then, and in the moonlight covered herself with a blanket. She smiled at him drowsily and called him "Yero, my hero," and that melted his heart.



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If you help someone, you may create a customer for life.



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Until I discovered cooking, I was never really interested in anything.



Giving to others selflesly and anonymously, radiating light throughout the world and illuminating your own darkness, your virtue becomes a sanctuary for yourself and all beings.

Giving to others selflesly and anonymously, radiating light throughout the world and illuminating your own darkness, your virtue becomes a sanctuary for yourself and all beings.



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That I've lasted is one of my greatest accomplishments. Maybe my greatest.



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