“Fear sometimes stops you from doing stupid things. But it can also stop you from doing creative or exciting or experimental things. It can cloud your judgment of others, and lead to all kinds of evil. The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings in our life.”
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Whoopi Goldberg
“When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they’ll remember and be kind to someone else. And it’ll become like a wildfire.”
Aesop
“Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.”
Malcolm X
“You’re not to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.”
Aldous Huxley
“That all men are equal is a proposition which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.”
Sophocles
“A short saying oft contains much wisdom.”
William H. Borah
“The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.”
G. Gordon Liddy
“Obviously crime pays, or there’d be no crime.”
Malcolm X
“You’re not to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.”
G. Gordon Liddy
“Obviously crime pays, or there’d be no crime.”
Malcolm X
“You’re not to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.”
G. Gordon Liddy
“Obviously crime pays, or there’d be no crime.”
Malcolm X
“You’re not to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.”
G. Gordon Liddy
“Obviously crime pays, or there’d be no crime.”
Malcolm X
“You’re not to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.”
G. Gordon Liddy
“Obviously crime pays, or there’d be no crime.”
John Green
“You clench your teeth. You look up. You tell yourself that if they see you cry, it will hurt them, and you will be nothing but A Sadness in their lives, and you must not become a mere sadness, so you will not cry, and you say all of this to yourself while looking up at the ceiling, and then you swallow even though your throat does not want to close and you look at the person who loves you and smile.”
Henry David Thoreau
“When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.”
Martha Beck
“The power to bring me out of solitude – or to push me back into it – had never belonged to another person. It was mine and only mine.”
Aristotle
“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”
Herbert Hoover
“About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.”
Bertrand Russell
“The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.”
Brendan Gill
“Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.”
Will Rogers
“Politics is applesauce.”
Rosalynn Carter
“A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go but where they ought to be.”
Joseph Joubert
“Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.”
Chuck Palahniuk
“On a long enough timeline. The survival rate for everyone drops to zero.”
Ann Richards
“I believe in recovery, and I believe that as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it.”
Samuel Johnson
“A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.”
P. J. O’Rourke
“The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.”
Woody Allen
“Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought– particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.”
Rita Rudner
“Before I met my husband, I’d never fallen in love, though I’d stepped in it a few times.”
Steve Jobs
“I’m sure a lot of you had this experience when you’re changing. You’re growing as a person and people tend to treat you like you were 18 months ago, and it’s really frustrating sometimes when you’re growing up and you’re more capable. It’s the same thing with a company and the press. The press is going to have a lag time. The best thing we can do about the press is embrace them and do the best thing we can to educate them about our strategy. But to keep our eye on the prize, that is turning out some great products. the press and the stock prize will take care of themselves.”
Edith Wharton
“True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.”
Bell Hooks
“Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.”
Robin Norwood
“Make your own recovery the first priority in your life.”
Jackie Mason
“Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.”
George Jackson
“Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it’s cowardice.”
A. J. Liebling
“Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.”
J. Robert Oppenheimer
“Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.”
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