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A contrarian at heart, I am often guided by what I disagree with and don't want.
As between the intolerable and the merely distasteful, I must choose the latter.
Subtlety chases the obvious up a never-ending spiral and never quite catches it.
When you want to change your circumstances, you must first change your thinking.
No man who has managed to keep out of an office can be called a failure in life.
Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it.
The space for what you want is already filled with what you settled for instead.
It’s not when you start that makes your success in the world, but when you quit.
Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose.
Progress without the reasoned freedom to think and act is regression to slavery.
Whatever happens to the great systems of nature will also be what happens to us.
There are more differences between poor people than between middle-class people.
In Scouting, a boy is encouraged to educate himself instead of being instructed.
If a man cannot make his point to keen boys in ten minutes, he ought to be shot!
A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.
The great thing about science fiction is that it transcends national boundaries.
I think now the trace of egotism may have been the beginning of all his troubles
From an endless beach of reality, we take a grain of sand and call it the world.
The most moral activity of all is the creation of space for life to move around.
If there were only one person in the world, is there any way he could be insane?
Mathematics is the bold luxury of pure reason, one of the few that remain today.
Have you noticed when you go on a diet, the first thing you lose is your temper.
There didn't seem to her any harm in it, and the make-believe was so comforting.
The big picture is that there is no big picture. That's why we keep painting it.
If you don't use your own imagination, somebody else is going to use it for you.
New York walking isn't exercise: it's a continually showing make-your-own movie.
There's so much spectating going on that a lot of us never get around to living.
What was life asking of me? How could I respond when I didn't know the question?
The hero of 'Dark Powers' can touch murder victims and read their last memories.
I like poached eggs, but I'll make scrambled or fried or whatever anybody wants.
He died violent and young and desperate, just like we all knew he'd die someday.
Pity is not natural to man. Children always are cruel. Savages are always cruel.
About things on which the public thinks long it commonly attains to think right.
It is in refinement and elegance that the civilized man differs from the savage.
Friendship may well deserve the sacrifice of pleasure, though not of conscience.
The cure for the greatest part of human miseries is not radical, but palliative.
A family ... is a little kingdom, torn with factions and exposed to revolutions.
Men who cannot deceive others are very often successful at deceiving themselves.
It is generally agreed, that few men are made better by affluence or exaltation.
The happiness of London is not to be conceived but by those who have been in it.
The end of writing is to instruct; the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing.
Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?
Women love those best (whether men, women, or children) who give them most pain.
A fop takes great pains to hang out a sign, by his dress, of what he has within.
I wonder how you're supposed to know the exact moment when there's no more hope.
You're not a sucker. You're just nice. You give people the benefit of the doubt.
We laughed ourselves silly, taking back our shared past, gently, piece by piece.
You should have seen your face," she said, her breath hot in my ear. "Sa-woooon.
It all depends on how you choose to live it. It's like forever, always changing.
You don't have to make things harder then they have to be just to prove a point.