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Michel de Montaigne quote: "On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our..."
On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom. Michel de Montaigne
The government is indeed an institution, but "the market" is nothing more than an option for each individual to chose among numerous existing institutions, or to fashion new arrangements suited to his own situation and taste. Thomas Sowell
Arthur Conan Doyle quote: "The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception..."
The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness. Arthur Conan Doyle
Because, sometimes you've got to think about more than your own safety! Sometimes you've got to think about the greater good! This is war! J. K. Rowling
Whenever an occasion arose in which she needed an opinion on something in the wider world, she borrowed her husband's. If this had been all there was to her, she wouldn't have bothered anyone, but as is so often the case with such women, she suffered from an incurable case of of pretentiousness. Lacking any internalized values of her own, such people can arrive at a standpoint only by adopting other people's standards or views. The only principle that governs their minds is the question... Haruki Murakami
Haruki Murakami quote: "Each "way of thinking" has its own shape and color, which wax..."
Each "way of thinking" has its own shape and color, which wax and wane like the moon. Haruki Murakami
Chuck Palahniuk quote: "The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was..."
The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend. Chuck Palahniuk
All I want to be is very young always and very irresponsible and to feel that my life is my own-to live and be happy and die in my own way to please myself Zelda Fitzgerald
Contrary to what we may have been taught to think, unnecessary and unchosen suffering wounds us but need not scar us for life. It does mark us. What we allow the mark of our suffering to become is in our own hands. Bell Hooks
I turned to my own bunk and examined it with a kind of appalled fascination. If the mattress stains were anything to go by, a previous user had not so much suffered from incontinence as rejoiced in it. He had evidently included the pillow in his celebrations. Bill Bryson
For a moment he felt a wild hope: perhaps this really was a nightmare. Perhaps he would awake in his own bed, bathed in sweat, shaking, maybe even crying . . . but alive. Safe. Then he pushed the thought away. Its charm was deadly, its comfort fatal. Stephen King
In love as as in speculation there is much filth; in love also, people think only of their own gratification; yet without love there would be no life, and the world would come to an end. Emile Zola
Strange is our situation here on Earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends. Albert Einstein
I have my own way to walk and for some reason or other Zen is right in the middle of it wherever I go. So there it is, with all its beautiful purposelessness, and it has become very familiar to me though I do not know "what it is." Or even if it is an "it." Not to be foolish and multiply words, I'll say simply that it seems to me that Zen is the very atmosphere of the Gospels, and the Gospels are bursting with it. It is the proper climate for any monk, no matter what kind of monk he may... Thomas Merton
She was looking into my eyes with that way she had of looking that made you wonder whether she really saw out of her own eyes. They would look on and on after every one else's eyes in the world would have stopped looking. She looked as though there were nothing on earth she would not look at like that, and really she was afraid of so many things. Ernest Hemingway

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