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Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?
Empathy
Andre Gide

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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
Giving
Andre Gide

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The abominable effort to take one's sins with one to paradise.
Paradise
Andre Gide

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It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs.
Food and Eating
W. S. Gilbert

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My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.
Pride
W. S. Gilbert

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Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.
Death and Dying
Gary Mark Gilmore

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There're two people in the world that are not likeable: a master and a slave.
Submission
Nikki Giovanni

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Thin people are beautiful, but fat people are adorable.
Obesity
Jackie Gleason

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Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.
Character
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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If you want a wise answer, ask a reasonable question.
Questions
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.
Character
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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The man of understanding finds everything laughable.
Understanding
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable.
Crime and Criminals
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.
Lies and Lying
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable.
Desire
Oliver Goldsmith

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When some people retire, it's going to be mighty hard to be able to tell the difference.
Retirement
Virginia Graham

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Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.
Abstinence
Horace Greeley

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Every time I try to define a perfectly stable person, I am appalled by the dullness of that person.
Stability
J. D. Griffin

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Everything someone does on a daily basis should be traceable back to an annual or quarterly plan.
Planning
Richard E. Griggs

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When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
Information
Ursula K. Le Guin

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The force of selfishness is as inevitable and as calculable as the force of gravitation.
Selfishness
Hailliard

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Every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary.
Service
Nathan Hale

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Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.
Reason
Alexander Hamilton

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Precious beyond price are good resolutions. Valuable beyond price are good feelings.
Resolution
H. R. Haweis

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Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.
Custom
William Hazlitt

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun