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"The signs of excessive indulgence in this destructive pastime are easily detectable. They are these: A disposition to eat, to drink, to smoke, to meet together convivially, to laugh, to joke, and tell indelicate stories- and mainly, a yearning to paint pictures."
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"Often those that criticise others reveal what he himself lacks."
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"When you make eye contact with another person, you can send thousands of silent messages without even speaking a word. No wonder eye contact can be both a direct form of communication and an elusive attribute at the same time."
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"If Baltimore's view, that scientists who do not take the words of authorities are far removed from the ordinary behavior of scientists, prevails in the scientific community, then something fundamental, very serious, and very disturbing is happening to the scientific community."
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"If you want to know the real reasons behind that attitude, think of the thought behind that attitude."
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"The head follows the feet. We act first and find reasons later."
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"Research has shown that smiling releases endorphins-the happy hormones that shift your physiology for improved well-being. When you smile and your eyes crinkle, your body releases chemicals that change the chemistry of your brain, lifting spirits, and reducing pain. Even when it is hard to smile and you are forcing it, positive changes take place in your physiology."
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"Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use."
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"When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained."
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"Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet."
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"I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up."
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"Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do."
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"Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And ain't that a big enough majority for any town?"
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"One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning."
Learning

"I had to have company -- I was made for it, I think -- so I made friends with the animals. They are just charming, and they have the kindest disposition and the politest ways; they never look sour, they never let you feel that you are intruding, they smile at you and wag their tail, if they've got one, and they are always ready for a romp or an excursion or anything you want to propose."
Friendship

"It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it."
Humor

"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up."
Happiness
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