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Robert A. Heinlein quote: "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately..."
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. Robert A. Heinlein
George Carlin quote: "If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?"
If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done? George Carlin
enjoying a tranquillity in which I won’t write the works I don’t write now, and to keep on not writing them I’ll come up with even better excuses than the ones I use today to elude myself. Or I’ll be in an institution for paupers, happy in my utter defeat, mixed up with the rabble of would-be geniuses who were no more than beggars with dreams, thrown in with the anonymous throng of those who didn’t have strength enough to conquer nor renunciation enough to conquer enough to conquer nor... Fernando Pessoa
Victor Hugo quote: "Of all the things that God has made, the human heart is the..."
Of all the things that God has made, the human heart is the one which sheds the most light, alas! and the most darkness. Victor Hugo
Since every man is obliged to promote happiness and virtue, he should be careful not to mislead unwary minds, by appearing to set too high a value upon things by which no real excellence is conferred. Samuel Johnson
During the long nights in the caves, how many Hamlets must have murmured their endless monologues—for it is likely that the apogee of metaphysical torment is to be located well before that universal insipidity which followed the advent of Philosophy. Emile M. Cioran
Once more the odious courtesies began, the first handed the knife across K. to the second, who handed it across K. back again to the first. K. now perceived clearly that he was supposed to seize the knife himself, as it traveled from hand to hand above him, and plunge it into his own breast. But he did not do so, he merely turned his head, which was still free to move, and gazed around him. He could not completely rise to the occasion, he could not relieve the officials of all their tasks;... Franz Kafka
Would that Christmas could just be, without presents. It is just so stupid, everyoneexhausting themselves, miserably hemorrhaging money on pointless items nobody wants: nolonger tokens of love but angst-ridden solutions to problems. (Hmm. Though must admit, pretty bloody pleased to have new handbag.) What is the point of entire nation rushing round for sixweeks in a bad mood preparing for utterly pointless Taste-of-Others exam which entire nation thenfails and gets stuck with hideous unwanted... Helen Fielding
I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there unable to decide the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they popped to the ground at my feet. Sylvia Plath
She was white, perhaps too white. Her eyes, which were almost always cast down, when she raised them testified to the purest of souls, and when she smiled, revealing her small, white teeth, one might be tempted to say that a rose is merely a plant, and ivory just an elephant’s tusk. Jose Rizal
A British traveler remarked, 'There are [fashions in Guatemala] which it would require more than common charity to speak of with respect...'" FILL IN YOUR OWN GRIPES! ;-) Paul Theroux
Did I not feel charmed at those truly genuine expressions of nature, which, though but little mirthful in reality, so often amused us? Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Michel de Montaigne quote: "The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be..."
The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere is to be nowhere.es Michel de Montaigne
Frederic Chopin quote: "I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness."
I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness. Frederic Chopin
Your life is your own. You mold it. You make it. All anyone can do is to point out ways and means which have been helpful to others. Perhaps they will serve as suggestions to stimulate your own thinking until you know what it is that will fulfill you, will help you to find out what you want to do with your life. Eleanor Roosevelt

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