Miscellaneous Quotes

• "Our strength is often composed of the weakness we're damned if we're going to show."
  By: Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
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• "We're seldom drawn to a character we admire; only to a personality we like."
  By: Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
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• "No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half-thought of it ourselves."
  By: Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
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• "It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing."
  By: Mariane Moore, A Grave, Collected Poems, 1951
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• "Most people die at the last minute; others twenty years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of the earth."
  By: Louis Céline, Voyage au bout du monde, 1932
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• "After all, the main question will be the opener: Hello, are you there? If the reply should turn out to be Yes, hello, we might want to stop there and think about that, for quite a long time."
  By: Lewis Thomas, Lives of a Cell, 1974
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• "I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?"
  By: Leo Durocher
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• "I remembered a story of how Bach was approached by a young admirer one day and asked, But Papa Bach, how do you manage to think of all these new tunes? My dear fellow, Bach is said to have answered, according to my version, I have no need to think of them. I have the greatest difficulty not to step on them when I get out of bed in the morning and start moving around my room."
  By: Laurens Van der Post
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• "It takes more strength of character to withstand good fortune than bad."
  By: La Rochefoucauld, Reflections, 1665
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• "A wise man is not governed by others, nor does he try to govern them; he prefers that reason alone prevail."
  By: La Bruyère, Characters, 1688
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• "There is a kind way of assisting our fellow-creatures which is enough to break their hearts while it saves their outer envelope."
  By: Joseph Conrad
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• "The only time you realize you have a reputation is when you're not living up to it."
  By: José Iturbi
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• "We talk much more about individualism and liberty than our ancestors. But as so often happens, when anything becomes conscious, the consciousness is compensatory for absence in practice."
  By: John Dewey
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• "Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them."
  By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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• "[M]y own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose."
  By: J.B.S. Haldane, Possible Worlds and Other Papers, 1927
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• "There is nothing noble about being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self."
  By: Hindustani Proverb
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