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I don't smoke because I like to do so, but because it makes me pay cigarette taxes, which helps build roads and water supplies.
I've always been partial to the image of liquor as lubrication, a layer of protection from all the sharp thoughts in your head.
People say children from broken homes have it hard, but the children of charmed marriages have their own particular challenges.
I truly believe that a woman who knows herself, and who thus knows her true value, can never be frightened into being co-opted.
Anacalypsis: An Attempt to Draw Aside the Veil of the Saitic or an Inquiry into the Origin of Languages, Nations and Religions.
Keep a definite goal of achievement constantly in view. Realize that work well and worthily done makes life truly worth living.
The number one resolution that people mention to me as something that's made them happier is - to my surprise - making the bed.
I know they say (Stalin) killed 20, 30, 40 million people. It's bullsh*t. (I have yet to find) one crime that Stalin committed.
Some say that you know real love when you realise the only person in the world who can console you is the one who has hurt you.
In giving presentations, use the 10/20/30 rule....use only 10 slides, take 20 minutes maximum, and use at least 30-point fonts.
I want to know which idea you're going to kill yourself trying to make successful, not which ideas have crossed your idle mind.
My theory is that when you're young, you should work eighty hours a week to create a product or service that changes the world.
With hidden powers of unknown extent apparently at his disposal, Curwen was not a man who could safely be warned to leave town.
We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.
Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.
Strip the hills, drain the boglands, and you create flood conditions inevitably. Yet that is what we have been doing for years.
To reach levels of success you've never reached before, you must be committed at a level you've never been committed at before.
Focusing on getting the most out of every situation is stressful. Focusing on giving the most in every situation is liberating.
Give yourself permission to be happy. It doesn't matter what's going on around you, what matters is what's going on inside you.
There is no better day than today to do the things you've been putting off. Take action; it's the only way to change your life!
For the mother is and must be, whether she knows it or not, the greatest, strongest and most lasting teacher her children have.
Thee may tell Aunt Janet from me that she might as well try to stop the stars in their courses as to try to stop a love affair.
Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.
Two warm bodies and one cold bottle of champagne will produce something more wonderful than would happen without the champagne.
I do not know the needs of a god or of another world... I do know that women make shirts for seventy cents a dozen in this one.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
I hung about the dangerous frontier of "guess," avoiding with infinite trouble to myself and others the broad valley of reason.
Aim for a star, and keep your sights high! With a heart full of faith within, your feet on the ground and your eyes in the sky.
It is hard to repent, to admit you are wrong on faith alone before the evidence of a feeling of being forgiven and light comes.
Missions is God finding those whose hearts are right with Him and placing them where they can make a difference for His kingdom
If one hesitates in his path, let him not proceed. Let him respect his doubts, for doubts, too, may have some divinity in them.
We live thick and are in each other's way, and stumble over one another, and I think we thus lose some respect for one another.
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
A Friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us.
The value of any experience is measured, of course, not by the amount of money, but the amount of development we get out of it.
I am resolved that I will not through humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.
How happy is he born and taught; that serves not another's will, whose armor is his honest thought and truth, his utmost skill.
I have never seen a person grow or change in a self - constructive meaningful way when motivated by guilt, shame, or self hate.
A diet is a plan, generally hopeless, for reducing your weight, which tests your will power but does little for your waistline.
The fear that permeated every fiber of my being was relentless, it was cruel, and it was my best hope for getting through this.
It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair.
The internet wasn't created for mockery, it was supposed to help researchers at different universities share data sets. It was!
Do not beg me by knees or by parents you dog! I only wish I were savagely wrathful enough to hack up your corpse and eat it raw
You never know when an old calendar might come in handy! Sure, it's not 1985 right now, but who knows what tomorrow will bring?
She threw into the wine which they were drinking a drug which takes away grief and passion and brings forgetfulness of all ills
I normally take a long time finding titles. I finish the book and go into sweats for months afterwards trying to think of them.
It is pride which fills the world with so much harshness and severity. We are rigorous to offenses as if we had never offended.
There were certain things, learned so young and remembered so deep that they felt like little stones in the center of her mind.
If you do not know the blessings you have when you have them, then Allah will teach you about them by taking them away from you
Exercise power by means of kindness, and you may be causing more damage than you could by cruelty. Neither approach is correct.