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“Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.”
— Oscar Wilde
“The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre
“I don't look at myself as a commodity, but I'm sure a lot of people have.”
— Marilyn Monroe
“To be, or not to be, that is the question.”
— William Shakespeare
“Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“God made and governs the world invisibly, and has commanded us to love and worship him and no other God; to honor our parents and masters, and love our neighbours as ourselves; and to be temperate, just, and peaceable, and to be merciful even to brute beasts.”
— Isaac Newton
“I think; therefore I am.”
— René Descartes
“I never look at my watch when I'm sketching!”
— Karl Lagerfeld
“I like ice hockey. No one is ever going to ask me to write about that as a metaphor for life.”
— Steven Pinker
“We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.”
— Charles Darwin
“A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can scarce ever be spent.”
— Benjamin Franklin
“If you will have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is convince yourself that the person is subhuman. The second thing you have to do is convince your allies so you'll have some help, and the third and probably unkindest cut of all is to convince that person that he or she is subhuman and deserves it.”
— Maya Angelou
“It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.”
— Epicurus
“One of the wonderful things about Oprah: She teaches you to keep on stepping.”
— Maya Angelou
“The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.”
— Horace
“I actually went to an Oasis concert. I thought they were a brilliant songwriting band.”
— Tom Stoppard