The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity. ~Max Beerbohm
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Humanitarian convictions are the linchpins of our salvation, and these an artist must champion. ~Eric Maisel
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Here you can be a billionaire, like Mark Zuckerberg rich, but you are going to die and you are here for a while and ultimately all of your stuff is kind of like a rental. ~Henry Rollins
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Sometimes we are devils to ourselves. When we will tempt the frailty of our powers, presuming on their changeful potency. ~William Shakespeare
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When I was a kid, I used to deliver the newspaper all over town, cramming papers between screen doors and into mailboxes and under doormats. ~Jill Lepore
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In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience. ~William Prescott
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I'm not married, and I don't have any kids, so sometimes I envy that end of things when I see a family vacation or people at the beach with their kids or at sporting events with their kids; you wonder, "Is that a part of your life that you want to go into?" ~Kevin Connolly
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Social media is not about the exploitation of technology but service to community. ~Simon Mainwaring
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1972 was a year of many pleasant and rewarding experiences for me. ~Chuck Mangione
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People love to hate other people. ~Kid Rock
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It is a common teaching of the Saints that one of the principal means of leading a good and exemplary life is certainly modesty and the mortification of the eyes. Just as there is nothing better than modesty to preserve devotion in a soul and to edify one's neighbor, so too, there is nothing worse than immodesty and licentious glances to expose a person to the danger of becoming lax and loose in morals. ~Alphonsus Rodriguez
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Once I began doing stand-up, I didn't get a kick out of the applause or being the centre of attention; but I did get a kick out of the jigsaw puzzle aspect of it, searching for the right bit, adding another few pieces each night until the bigger picture appears. That's the appeal: the challenge of it. ~Stephen Merchant
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Music is the eye of the ear. ~Thomas Draxe
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For the possibilities of being different from what one is are infinite. Once one has negated oneself, however, there are no longer any particular choices. ~Hannah Arendt
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The ways to the One are as many as the lives of men. ~Zen Proverb
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You either go through your life working for someone and getting a paycheck; and it can be a damn good paycheck, and I am not complaining as someone who has always been a salaried employee; or you can go out and become an entrepreneur. ~Al Michaels
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The go-between wears out a thousand sandals. ~Japanese Proverb
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A hedge between keeps friendship green. ~French Proverb
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The present can try to bury the past, an operation that is most atrocious when it is most successful. ~Mary McCarthy
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I don't trust a lot of journalists. ~Calvin Klein
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We like to think that our parents made a decision to bring us into the world. ~Christopher Eccleston
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I can't say I'm one way or the other because I've honestly fallen in love with a man and I've honestly fallen in love with a woman. I don't know how you label that, it's just how it is. ~Evan Rachel Wood
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The past has been a mint of blood and sorrow. That must not be true of tomorrow. ~Langston Hughes
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Friendship is a furrow in the sand. ~Tongan Proverb
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There are no limits, only obstacles, and any obstacle can be overcome. ~David Belle
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