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#1. My grandfather, as I said, was industrious. He'd had a variety of jobs and decided sometime in the 1940s that he would never work for anyone. He was also a very independent man.
Clarence Thomas
#2. O, we all acknowledge our faults, now; 'tis the mode of the day: but the acknowledgment passes for current payment; and therefore we never amend them.
Fanny Burney
#3. The story of your past doesn't have to become the story of your life.
Luminita D. Saviuc
#5. Note that everything that happens, happens justly, and if you observe carefully, you will find it to be so, not only with respect to the continuity of the series of things, but with respect to what is just, as if it were done by one who assigns to each thing its value.
Marcus Aurelius
#6. Sometimes he felt as if he had stepped into an alternate universe where the old laws of nature and what was right and wrong did not apply.
Joe R. Lansdale
#7. Have you ever helped anyone? Do you believe in help? If you can honestly answer yes to both questions, you're more likely to succeed in life than anyone else that can't.
Robin Sacredfire
#9. Transcending divisiveness is one of the dreams of centrists, as if disagreement were a bad habit rather than fundamental to politics.
Doug Henwood
#10. Nothing important on Wall Street can be counted on to occur exactly in the same way as it happened before.
Benjamin Graham
#11. There's real peril in trying to repeat yourself, and apply rules that applied to something else to a new project.
Mitchell Hurwitz
#12. Hadrian drew two swords from his sides in a single elegant motion. He flipped one around
letting it spin against his palm once. "Need to get a new grip on this one. It's starting to fray again." He looked at Will. "Shall we get on with this? I believe you were about to rob us.
Michael J. Sullivan
#13. Wit implies hatred or contempt of folly and crime, produces its effects by brisk shocks of surprise, uses the whip of scorpions and the branding-iron, stabs, stings, pinches, tortures, goads, teases, corrodes, undermines.
Edwin Percy Whipple
#14. What if our children are all super-bright and I can't understand what they're saying and they look down on me because I haven't got a PhD?
Sophie Kinsella
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