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"People who get offended by your not saying 'Thank you!' - after they've paid you a compliment were merely desperate to be thanked."
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Personal Development
"To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do."
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Personal Development
"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them."
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Personal Development
"The priceless gift of life, strength and time is our greatest wealth."
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Personal Development
"Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone."
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Personal Development
"To be content is to count your blessings."
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Personal Development
"Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude."
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Personal Development
"We have just all of a sudden discovered that here we are, with something called time seemingly precious, but not deeply appreciated."
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Personal Development
"Only great fools remain ungrateful."
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Personal Development
"Gratitude doesn't change the scenery. It merely washes clean the glass you look through so you can clearly see the colors."
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"Dr. Breed keeps telling me the main thing with Dr. Hoenikker was truth."You don't seem to agree."I don't know whether I agree or not. I just have trouble understandinghow truth, all by itself, could be enough for a person."
Philosophy
"After the thing went off, after it was a sure thing that America could wipe out a city with just one bomb, a scientist turned to Father and said, 'Science has now known sin.' And do you know what Father said? He said, 'What is sin?"
Philosophy
"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."
Earth
"Your planet's immune system is trying to get rid of you."
Environment
"A society, on occasion, can be the worst possible describer of mental health."
Society
"Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer."
Talent
"How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive."
History
"The nicest veterans in Schenectady, I thought, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who'd really fought."
War
"Literature is the only art in which the audience performs the score."
Literature
"...Jesus was only twelve years old. Jesus was learning the carpentry trade from his father.Two Roman soldiers came into the shop with a mechanical drawing on papyrus of a device they wanted built by sunrise the next morning. It was a cross to be used in the execution of a rabble-rouser.Jesus and his father built it. They were glad to have the work. And the rabble-rouser was executed on it.So it goes."
History
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