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"Who does not observe the immediate glow and security that is diffused over the life of woman, before restless or fretful, by engaging in gardening, building, or the lowest department of art? Here is something that is not routine--something that draws forth life towards the infinite."
"For now, capitalism is working to produce more money but does not see the people. This problem is getting worse across the world."
"That was the day that I promised I'd never sing of love that does not exist. but darling, You are the only exception"
"We say little, when vanity does not make us speak."
"Nothing is more contagious than example, and no man does any exceeding good or exceeding ill but it spawns new deeds of the same kind. The good we imitate through emulation, the ill through the malignity of our nature, which shame keeps locked up, but example sets free."
"If vanity does not entirely overthrow the virtues, at least it makes them all totter."
"Jealousy is always born with love, but does not die with it. In jealousy there is more of self-love than of love to another."
"To establish oneself in the world, one does all one can to seem established there already."
"A man does not please long when he has only species of wit."
"Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt."
"Imagination does not enable us to invent as many different contradictions as there are by nature in every heart."
"Fortune never appears so blind as to those to whom she does no good."
"Happiness does not consist in things themselves but in the relish we have of them."
"Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love."
"There are no 'holds.' Everyday you're either willing to buy more at the current price, or, if you aren't, you should redeploy the capital to something you believe does deserve incremental capital."
"When you go through life, when you go through different things, you take risks, you question yourself. I think everybody does, at some point in their life, question themselves."
"Happiness is an illusion, Natalie. It doesn't actually exist." "Of course it does," I said. "It's what you feel when you're not sad." "That's unconsciousness. And I'm pretty sure that I'm miserable when I am unconscious, too."
"[ Big infrastructure investment mentioned by Donald Trump] that would be a welcome development. We'll see if he wants to deliver on that. The truth is that if he does, we want to see infrastructure development too."
"I became this guy that does drum programming, and I don't want to be that guy anymore. I don't want to sit in front of my computer for 18 hours programming 16 bars of music."
"The computer does things that can't be done with hardware, like freezing sounds."
