"All I know is that if God loves me only half as much as my mother does, he will not send me to Hell."
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"Life is too short to make an over-serious business out of it."
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"A tendency to fly too straight at a goal, instead of circling around it, often carries one too far."
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"Simplicity is the outward sign and symbol of depth of thought."
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"Of all the unhappy people in the world, the unhappiest are those who have not found something they want to do."
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"No child is born with a really cold heart, and it is only in proportion as we lose that youthful heart that we lose the inner warmth in ourselves."
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"All women's dresses, in every age and country, are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress."
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"Nothing matters to a man who says nothing matters."
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"Even in despair, man must laugh."
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"A good traveller is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveller does not know where he came from."
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"Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst."
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"We all have obligations and duties toward our fellow men. But it does seem curious enough that in modern neurotic society, men's energies are consumed in making a living and rarely in living itself. It takes a lot of courage for a man to declare, with clarity and simplicity, that the purpose of life is to enjoy it."
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"To glorify the past and paint the future is easy, to survey the present and emerge with some light and understanding is difficult."
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"There is no proper time and place for reading. When the mood for reading comes, one can read anywhere"
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"Reality - Dreams = Animal Being Reality + Dreams = A Heart-Ache (usually called Idealism) Reality + Humor = Realism (also called Conservatism) Dreams - Humor = Fanaticism Dreams + Humor = Fantasy Reality + Dreams + Humor = Wisdom"
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"In contrast to logic, there is common sense, or still better, the Spirit of Reasonableness."
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"Let him cry whoever feels like crying, for we were animals before we became reasoning beings, and the shedding of a tear, whether of forgiveness or of pity or of sheer delight at beauty, will do him a lot of good."
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"There are no books in this world that everybody must read, but only books that a person must read at a certain time in a given place under given circumstances and at a given period of his life."
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"It is not dirt but the fear of dirt which is the sign of man's degeneration, and it is dangerous to judge a man's physical and moral sanity by outside standards."
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"The humour of the Chinese people in inventing gunpowder and finding its best use in making firecrackers for their grandfathers' birthdays is merely symbolical of their inventiveness along merely pacific lines."
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