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"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."

Erich Fromm, American Psychologist

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"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions."

Jean Rostand, French Scientist

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"You cannot be a hero without being a coward."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages."

Karl Schlegel, German Philosopher

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"Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us."

Jane Austen, British Writer

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"Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"It feels kinda weird being back in a high school cause I haven't been in a high school for about a year. So um, it's kinda interesting coming back, and y'know seeing the lockers, with all the signs, the handmade signs, so being in high school again is a little bit strange but in a good way."

Taylor Swift, American Musician

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"Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap."

Jacques Barzun, American Educator

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"Our writers are full of cliches just as old barns are full of bats. There is obviously no rule about this, except that anything that you suspect of being a cliche undoubtedly is one and had better be removed."

Wolcott Gibbs, American Writer

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"I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy."

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"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."

"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."

"The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions."

"You cannot be a hero without being a coward."

"The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages."

"Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us."

"Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so."

"It feels kinda weird being back in a high school cause I haven't been in a high school for about a year. So um, it's kinda interesting coming back, and y'know seeing the lockers, with all the signs, the handmade signs, so being in high school again is a little bit strange but in a good way."

"Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap."

"Our writers are full of cliches just as old barns are full of bats. There is obviously no rule about this, except that anything that you suspect of being a cliche undoubtedly is one and had better be removed."

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"I'm a girl from a good family who was very well brought up. One day I turned my back on it all and became a bohemian."

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"Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it."

"I have to live with both my selves as best I may."

"I was just a cheap little starlet hardly acting at all in a very mediocre film."

"Have you ever heard of a good marriage growing in front of the cameras?"

"A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you."

"I have no private life at all. I am a hunted woman. I can't take a step without being questioned and surrounded."

"I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy."