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"Before making a snap judgment, ask yourself if it really is something that has hurt you or simply just made you angry at yourself for allowing it to happen. It's amazing what 'sleeping on it' can do. A new day sees a new beginning."

"Who I am? Am I thinking?"

"Never underestimate the power of a simple thought."

"You are not a human being, but you are a thinking and dreaming machine."

"I thought The Office was good, though I didn't think of it as a sitcom, just as a very good programme."

"They argued because they liked argument, liked the swift run of the unfettered mind along the paths of possibility, liked to question what was not questioned."

"Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois."
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"Some people carry their hearts in their heads; very many carry their heads in their hearts. The difficulty is to keep them apart, yet both actively working together."

"Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it."

"Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action."

"It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life."

"A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on mixing with the world, enough may still remain to prompt fated support them through great actions."

"It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of."

"Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them."
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