A world of few choices, whether in jeans or mates, is a world in which individual differences become sources of alienation, unhappiness, even self-loathing. If no jeans fit, you'll feel uncomfortable or inferior. If no housing developments reflect your taste for unique architecture, you'll write screeds against philistine mass culture. ~Virginia Postrel
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Caddy got the box and set it on the floor and opened it. It was full of stars. When I was still, they were still. When I moved, they glinted and sparkled. I hushed. ~William Faulkner
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I have a natural curiosity for people. ~Nicholas Haslam
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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. ~Edith Sitwell
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Faith itself cannot accomplish anything, yet without faith, no one can fly. ~Charles R. Swindoll
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Two wrongs don't make a right. ~English Proverb
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Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle. ~Edmond About
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Most people don't see what's going on around them. That's my principal message to writers: "For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you." ~William S. Burroughs
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Friendship is a furrow in the sand. ~Tongan Proverb
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There is a very simple secret to being happy. Just let go of your "demand" on this moment. Any time you have a demand on the moment to give you something or remove something, there is suffering. You are arguing with "what is." Your demands keep you chained to the "dream state" of the conditioned mind. The desire to "control" is, ultimately, our unwillingness to just be awake. ~Adyashanti
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You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence. ~William J. H. Boetcker
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Earth to Democrats; displaying contempt for the American people when you are being paid by those people to serve their interests is generally not a good political move. ~Monica Crowley
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Faith, culture, structure and guidance are good things. ~Bethenny Frankel
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The thing I always say to people is this: "If you avoid failure, you also avoid success." ~Robert Kiyosaki
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To devastate by language, to blow up the word and with it the world. ~Emile M. Cioran
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Edgar Allan Poe is considered the great writer of horror stories, perhaps the greatest, I will say the greatest. ~William Friedkin
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That is a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion. ~William Shakespeare
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The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the desire to lead anyone. ~William Beveridge
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Music is the eye of the ear. ~Thomas Draxe
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There is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference there is, is very important. ~William James
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For mercy has a human heart; pity, a human face; and love, the human form divine, and peace, the human dress. ~William Blake
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We dwell in the house of the body, but its perfection and intricate life are the work of a wisdom which never relaxes dominion over a single cell. ~George William Russell
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Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. ~Chinese Proverb
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A doable goal for me is to finish a marathon under four hours. I'm doing all the training, but the hardest part is eating right. ~Sean Astin
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Only fools and dead men don't change their minds. Fools won't. Dead men can't. ~John Henry Patterson
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