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Andre Gide quote: "Envying another man's happiness is madness; you wouldn't know..."
Envying another man's happiness is madness; you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it. Andre Gide
It's so important to always be yourself. If you do that, you will be successful as you, instead of worrying about trying to conform. Leighton Meester
Chuck Palahniuk quote: "If there’s any trick to doing a job you hate . . . Mrs. Clark..."
If there’s any trick to doing a job you hate . . . Mrs. Clark says it’s to find a job you hate even more. Chuck Palahniuk
By all means," cried the bard, his eyes lighting up. "A Fflam to the rescue! Storm the castle! Carry it by assault! Batter down the gates!"There's not much of it left to storm," said Eilonwy. "Oh?" said Fflewddur, with disappointment. "Very well, we shall do the best we can. Lloyd Alexander
The reason I know what we are to each other is because we fight freely and almost constantly, about even the smallest thing. In fact, once we didn't speak for an entire week because he didn't like the way I loaded his dishwasher...I can't decide if we're exact opposites, or somehow exactly the same except for minor cosmetic differences. I do know that all of his friends hate me and all of my friends hate him. We drive each other crazy in ways that nobody else can even touch. We never bore... Augusten Burroughs
David Sedaris quote: "Nobody pours stuffing like you do, my friend."
Nobody pours stuffing like you do, my friend. David Sedaris
My belief in free speech is so profound that I am seldom tempted to deny it to the other fellow. Nor do I make any effort to differentiate between the other fellow right and that other fellow wrong, for I am convinced that free speech is worth nothing unless it includes a full franchise to be foolish and even...malicious. H. L. Mencken
Men are generally more law-abiding than women. Women have the feeling that since they didn't make the rules, the rules have nothing to do with them. Diane Johnson
Bush has legitimized a huge expansion of the welfare state, liberalizing immigration, and using force for democratization abroad. All the next Democratic president has to do to finish Bush's hard work is to raise taxes to pay for it all. Andrew Sullivan
But now science is the belief system that is hundreds of years old. And, like the medieval system before it, science is starting not to fit the world any more. Science has attained so much power that its practical limits begin to be apparent. Largely through science, billions of us live in one small world, densely packed and intercommunicating. But science cannot help us decide what to do with that world, or how to live. Science can make a nuclear reactor, but it cannot tell us not to... Michael Crichton
Sylvia Plath quote: "At twenty I tried to die. And get back, back, back to you. I..."
At twenty I tried to die. And get back, back, back to you. I thought even the bones would do. Sylvia Plath
Harriet Beecher Stowe quote: "Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good not to..."
Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good not to do harm. Harriet Beecher Stowe
The minute you get away from fundamentals – whether its proper technique, work ethic or mental preparation – the bottom can fall out of your game, your schoolwork, your job, whatever you’re doing. Michael Jordan
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow quote: "Let us, then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still..."
Let us, then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves. People are not, for example, terribly anxious to be equal (equal, after all, to what and to whom?) but they love the idea of being superior. James Baldwin

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