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All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.
Beauty
Fran Lebowitz

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Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.
Success
Fran Lebowitz

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Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.
Food and Eating
Fran Lebowitz

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Never lie when the truth is more profitable.
Truth
Stanislaw J. Lec

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Any cook should be able to run the country.
Government
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

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The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable.
Superstition
Doris Lessing

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It is more comfortable for me, in the long run, to be rude than polite.
Manners
Wyndham Lewis

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Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.
Time and Time Management
Abraham Lincoln

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Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good in the world.
Property
Abraham Lincoln

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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
Fame
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Love is inseparable from knowledge.
Love
St. Macarius of Egypt

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He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable.
Aphorisms and Epigrams
Thomas B. Macaulay

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To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power.
Contentment
George Macdonald

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Left-wingers are incapable of conspiring because they are all egomaniacs.
Liberals
Norman Mailer

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The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.
Indecision
Maimonides

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A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
Heart
Nelson Mandela

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Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.
Habit
Horace Mann

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Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
Socializing and Socialism
Thomas Mann

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I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.
Excellence
Katherine Mansfield

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Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.
Business
Jim Manzi

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Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
Honesty
Don Marquis

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Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.
Honesty
Don Marquis

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To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.
Past
Marcus Valerius Martial

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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
Resignation
W. Somerset Maugham

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I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.
Books - Reading
W. Somerset Maugham

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