"To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness."

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"To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness."

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"Oh Lord, may I be directed what to do and what to leave undone."

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"The best way to investigate the elusive phenomenon called the creative process may well be to target all the misconceptions, to explain what the creative process is not."

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"They may not be conscripted against their will as the foot soldiers in a federal crusade."

John Paul Stevens, American Judge

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"May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine."

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"Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same."

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"I won't tell you that the world matters nothing, or the world's voice, or the voice of society. They matter a good deal. They matter far too much. But there are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands. You have that moment now. Choose!"

Philosophy

"Bronze-limbed and well-knit, like a statue wrought by a Grecian, he stood on the sand with his back to the moon, and out of the foam came white arms that beckoned to him, and out of the waves rose dim forms that did him homage. Before him lay his shadow, which was the body of his Soul, and behind him hung the moon in the honey-coloured air."

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"The post on her left was occupied by Mr. Erskine of Treadley, an old gentleman of considerable charm and culture, who had fallen, however, into bad habits of silence, having, as he explained once to Lady Agatha, said everything that he had to say before he was thirty."

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"I don't want to see him alone. He says things that annoy me. He gives me good advice."

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"Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval."

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"Up to the present man has hardly cultivated sympathy at all. He has merely sympathy with pain, and sympathy with pain is not the highest form of sympathy. All sympathy is fine, but sympathy with suffering is the least fine mode. It is tainted with egotism. It is apt to become morbid. There is in it a certain element of terror for our own safety. We become afraid that we ourselves might be as the leper or as the blind, and that no man would have care of us. It is curiously limiting, too. One should sympathise with the entirety of life, not with life's sores and maladies merely, but with life's joy and beauty and energy and health and freedom."

Philosophy

"I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability."

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"Because sometimes you have to do something bad to do something good."

Ethics

"You come down here to console me. That is charming of you. You find me consoled, and you are furious. How like a sympathetic person!"

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"It is so easy to convince others, it is so difficult to convince oneself."

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