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"The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation."
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"Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position."

"Only the last two planes, I think, had any shot of being intercepted and taken down on 9/11."

"Being a good psychoanalyst, in short, has the same disadvantage as being a good parent: The children desert one as they grow up."

"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all."

"I'm not exactly an Einstein, so I compensate by being more focused."

"A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it."

"There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while."
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"HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man?DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me."

"Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?"

"Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness."

"The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself."

"Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself."

"Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not."

"CHARTERIS [unfolding his arms in terror] No, please. Dont. As a philosopher, it's my business to tell other people the truth; but it's not their business to tell it to me. I dont like it: it hurts."

"The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them make them."

"What we want to see is the child in pursuit of the knowledge not the knowledge in pursuit of the child."
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