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“Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying?”
— Chuck Palahniuk
“I became the kind of parent my mother was to me.”
— Maya Angelou
“We have these services that people love and that are drivers of data usage... and we want to work this out, so that way, it's a profitable model for our partners.”
— Mark Zuckerberg
“I have great respect for the past. If you don't know where you've come from, you don't know where you're going. I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment. I'm here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I'm at, then I go forward to the next place.”
— Maya Angelou
“A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.”
— Bruce Lee
“The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life, which is impossible to the pure egoist.”
— Bertrand Russell
“The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.”
— Salvador Dalí
“Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.”
— Niccolo Machiavelli
Explore persistence quotes from renowned thinkers and authors.
“Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.”
— Bertrand Russell
“A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable.”
— Victor Hugo
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
— George Orwell
“Genius without education is like silver in the mine.”
— Benjamin Franklin
“Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.”
— Michel de Montaigne
“If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?”
— George Orwell
“The mark, to me, of a constructive argument is one that looks at a specific problem and says, 'What shall we do about this?' And a nonconstructive one is one that tries to label people.”
— Gloria Steinem
“I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.”
— Noam Chomsky
“I'm an actress. It's my passion.”
— Sophia Loren
“There's a historical milestone in the fact that our Apollo 11 landing on the moon took place a mere 66 years after the Wright Brothers' first flight.”
— Buzz Aldrin
“If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.”
— Epictetus
“The novels I planned to write were never going to be funny books about Jews. They were going to be country house books. Only later on could I write what I knew I was best at writing about.”
— Howard Jacobson