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"Comparisons are like rigid fingers-eager to point at a subject but unwilling to grasp it."
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"Setting our living standards and expectations based on the status of others is like wishing that apples were onions."
"Prostitutes are paid for taking their clothes off. Celebrities are paid for putting others' clothes on."
"The dividing line between those who will be great and those who will be mediocre is the amount of time each person converts into added value to himself."
". . . they would neither hate nor envy us if they did not deem us so much happier than themselves."
"Just because someone throws their success in your face doesn't mean you have to let it get in your eyes."
"All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest."
"Flying from the U.S. to Tokyo takes approximately as long as law school."
"What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us."
"If we come from the water, I conclude that we come from different kinds of it. I will meet a person and in his eyes see an ocean, deep and never ending; then I will meet another person and feel as though I have stepped into a shallow puddle on the street, there is nothing in it. Or maybe some of us come from the water, and some of us come from somewhere else; then it's all a matter of finding those who are the same as us."
"Sugar candy tasted better than bitter truth."
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"When you love someone, you don't care that she ate your sandwich. You only hope she found it delicious."
"Live today facing forward-with your back on yesterday, your eyes on tomorrow, and your head and heart in the moment."
"On a grim and dismal day that shattered my last ounce of confidence, I broke down and whimpered, "I'm awful and hideous and incompetent and boring and utterly useless. And then you grinned at me and said, "That's okay."
"People love super heroes. It's true we're impressed by their bravery and fortitude, their supernatural gifts and physical brawn. But the fact is, villains possess these same qualities. So why our admiration for the hero and not the nemesis? Because of virtue. A super hero gives everything to defend what's good and right without seeking praise or reward. Think about it. All the great heroes give without taking, help without grumbling, sacrifice without asking recompense. A super hero's real strength, what we absolutely fall in love with, is his finer virtue."
"Before you take that first curious, coerced, spiteful, or vengeful step forward, remember this: it's a thousand times easier to slip into a muddy pit than it is to climb out of one."
"Never be intimidated by what seems ominous, for BiG is only an accumulation of many smalls."
"What if dragons breathed bubbles and purred when they cuddled and giggled at chivalrous knights for their troubles?What if dragons felt soft, having scales made of cloth,and they moved rather slow like a brown-throated sloth?What if dragons were shyand did easily crywhen confronted by characters callous and sly?What if dragons did goodbut were misunderstoodso men mercilessly slew the beasts right where they stood?What if dragons aren't missedbecause there is no listof extinct types of quarry that now don't exist?"
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