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“When Clark Gable died, I cried for 2 days straight. I couldn't eat or sleep.”
— Marilyn Monroe
“Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.”
— Winston Churchill
“I don't consider myself to be that radical a thinker.”
— Steven Pinker
“I have a family, loving aunts, and a good home. No, on the surface I seem to have everything except my one true friend. All I think about when I'm with friends is having a good time. I can't bring myself to talk about anything but ordinary everyday things. We don't seem to be able to get any closer, and that's the problem.”
— Anne Frank
“The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.”
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“I think that I've had a very strange life.”
— J. K. Rowling
“It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”
— Helen Keller
“Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
“I don't think I've ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB.”
— Desmond Tutu
“I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.”
— Elizabeth II
“The only shame is to have none.”
— Blaise Pascal
“Silence is a true friend who never betrays.”
— Confucius
“As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.”
— Aristotle
“Teaching's hard! You need different skills: positive reinforcement, keeping students from getting bored, commanding their attention in a certain way.”
— Bill Gates
“There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.”
— Ovid
“I don't respond well to the Olympic noise, which is the noise of nationalistic triumphalism.”
— Tom Stoppard
“It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.”
— Thomas Jefferson
“I strive to be brief but I become obscure.”
— Horace
“Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by means of which we live.”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
“The Pacific is the best toilet for satellites.”
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
“You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world.”
— Jeff Bezos
“If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.”
— Margaret Thatcher
“Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.”
— Noam Chomsky
“Now, we are selling over 5 million songs a day now. Isn't that unbelievable? That's 58 songs every second of every minute of every hour of every day.”
— Steve Jobs
“It's in my blood to be around people while I was training.”
— Muhammad Ali