A world of few choices, whether in jeans or mates, is a world in which individual differences become sources of alienation, unhappiness, even self-loathing. If no jeans fit, you'll feel uncomfortable or inferior. If no housing developments reflect your taste for unique architecture, you'll write screeds against philistine mass culture. ~Virginia Postrel
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Men are like the stars; some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive. ~Jose Marti
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I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success; such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything. ~Nikola Tesla
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You have got to have a problem that you want to solve, a wrong that you want to right. ~Steve Jobs
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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse. ~James Madison
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You can make the dream bigger than the night. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Repression, however, is not the most obvious characteristic of the sea; the sea is a collector, quick to return a rapacious look. ~Marianne Moore
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If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill. ~African Proverb
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I don't believe in the clash of cultures. The culture is one. The culture is a ring off the same chain. Picasso was very much influenced by the African arts, and he influenced a whole other generation of artists. So everything influences everything. ~Marjane Satrapi
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Every place is safe to him who lives with justice. ~Epictetus
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They said to the wolf, "For what art thou following those poor little sheep?" He replied, "The dust upon which they tread is good for poor little eyes!" ~ Arabic Proverb
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Luck has a slender anchorage. ~English Proverb
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What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul. ~Yiddish Proverb
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What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul. ~Jewish Proverb
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Idolatry is permissible in Hinduism when it sub serves an ideal. ~Mahatma Gandhi
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But every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood. ~Betsy Lerner
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Worries go down better with soup. ~Jewish Proverb
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Last ship, best ship. ~English Proverb
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Pray for rain all you like, but dig a well as you do it. ~Stephen King
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Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them. ~Benjamin Franklin
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Yeah, I think there are a lot of things about Cleveland that I miss. Los Angeles is a funny place to live. ~Monica Potter
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Instead of complaining that the rosebush is full of thorns, be happy that the thorn bush has roses. ~Proverb
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As proud as a peacock. ~Proverb
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I don't have to steal bases. I steal bases because I want to. ~Lou Brock
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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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