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You weren't thinking and you weren't paying attention either. People who don't pay attention often get stuck in the Doldrums. Norton Juster
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent peopleand the affection of children, to leave the world a better place, to know even one life has breathed easierbecause you have lived, this is to have succeeded. Ralph Waldo Emerson
We often cause ourselves suffering by wanting only to live in a world of valleys, a world without struggle and difficulty, a world that is flat, plain, consistent. Bell Hooks
Francois de La Rochefoucauld quote: "Passion often makes fools of the wisest men and gives the..."
Passion often makes fools of the wisest men and gives the silliest wisdom. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the happy mortal is a model of complete perfection--which we have ourselves created. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
for it is often to be observed of the shallower men, that they are the very last to despond. It is the glory of the bladder that nothing can sink it; it is the reproach of a box of treasure, that once overboard it must drown Herman Melville
F. Scott Fitzgerald quote: "Men don’t often know those times when a girl could be had for..."
Men don’t often know those times when a girl could be had for nothing. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Dodie Smith quote: "There is something revolting about the way girls' minds so..."
There is something revolting about the way girls' minds so often jump to marriage long before they jump to love. Dodie Smith
John F. Kennedy quote: "No matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the..."
No matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth. John F. Kennedy
The willingness to undertake such action cannot be based on certainties, but on those possibilities glimpsed in a reading of history different from the customary painful recounting of human cruelties. In such a reading we can find not only war but resistance to war, not only injustice but rebellion against injustice, not only selfishness but self-sacrifice, not only silence in the fact of tyranny but defiance, not only callousness but compassion. Human beings show a broad spectrum of... Howard Zinn
I meditated on the nature of friendship as I practiced the craft. My friends had always come from outside the mainstream. I had always been popular with the fifth column of my peers, those individuals who were princely in their solitude, lords of their own unpraised melancholy. Distrusting the approval of the chosen, I would take the applause of exiles anytime. My friends were all foreigners, and they wore their unbelongingness in their eyes. I hunted for that look; I saw it often, disarrayed... Pat Conroy
Stephen Fry quote: "Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often..."
Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books Stephen Fry
Willa Cather quote: "Freedom so often means that one isn't needed anywhere."
Freedom so often means that one isn't needed anywhere. Willa Cather
Be aware of this truth that the people on this earth could be joyous, if only they would live rationally and if they would contribute mutually to each others' welfare. This world is not a vale of sorrows if you will recognize discriminatingly what is truly excellent in it; and if you will avail yourself of it for mutual happiness and well-being. Therefore, let us explain as often as possible, and particularly at the departure of life, that we base our faith on firm foundations, on Truth for... Kurt Vonnegut
Bookish people, who are often maladroit people, persist in thinking they can master any subtlety so long as it's been shaped into acceptable expository prose. Carol Shields

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