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"I feel like there is always something trying to pull us back into sleep, that there is this sort of seductive quality in all the hedonistic pleasures that pull on us."
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Personal Development
"Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things."
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Personal Development
"Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced."
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Personal Development
"The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim."
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Personal Development
"The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh."
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Personal Development
"Charm is the quality in others, that makes us more satisfied with ourselves."
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Personal Development
"Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists."
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Personal Development
"Greatness is the quality of time you are able to convert into the production of value."
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Personal Development
"What is easy is seldom excellent."
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Personal Development
"It is not how fast a tree grows, but how well. It is not how big a fruit is, but how sweet."
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"Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo."
Poetry
"We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with."
Money
"Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them."
Happiness
"The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality."
Quality
"I would rather start a family than finish one."
Family
"An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it."
People
"Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth."
Earth
"The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram."
Art
"I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much."
Family
"Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun."
Creativity
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