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#1. No, no! The devil is an egotist,
And is not apt, without why or wherefore,
"For God's sake," others to assist.
[Ger., Nein, nein! Der Teufel ist ein Egoist
Und thut nicht leicht um Gottes Willen,
Was einem Andern nutzlich ist.]

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#2. Be not diverted from your duty by any idle reflections the silly world may make upon you, for their censures are not in your power and should not be at all your concerns.

Epictetus

#3. I am talking about the responsibility of the poet, who is irresponsible by definition, an anarchist enamored of a solar order and never of the new order or whatever slogan makes five or six hundred million men march in step in a parody of order.

Julio Cortazar

#4. This is a way to kill a wife with kindness,
And thus I'll curb her mad and headstrong humour.
He that knows better how to tame a shrew,
Now let him speak. 'Tis charity to show.

William Shakespeare

#5. The field of human relations in Freud's sense is similar to the market - it is an exchange of satisfaction of biologically given needs, in which the relationship to the other individual is always a means to an end but never an end in itself.

Erich Fromm

#6. I was always told at school I was posh, then I came to London, and here I'm told I have a country accent.

Jessica Raine

#7. British actors behave like Europeans; they are also extremely well trained.

Jean-Jacques Annaud

#8. it's better to be happy...if you can..!!

Charles Bukowski

#9. A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Bill Vaughan

#10. This is real. This is what's important to me now. I'm not worried about the future, whatever it brings. I have all I need, right here.

Julie Kagawa