"We don't need as much as we have. Hardly any of us need as much money as we have. It's true what they say about the best things in life being free."
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"There is for a man two things in life that are very important, head and shoulders above everything else. Find work you like, and find someone to live with you like. Very few people get both."
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"Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure."
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"The important thing, I think, is not to be bitter. You know, if it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. I think that the worst thing you could say about him is that basically he's an underachiever. After all, you know, there are worse things in life than death."
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"Talent is luck. The important thing in life is courage."
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"I don't think it's the most important thing in life to fit it. I think it's the most important thing in life to dance to the beat of your own drum and to look like you're having more fun than the people who look cool like they fit in."
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"In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod-always bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faults-rather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life."
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"Vanity is the healthiest thing in life."
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"To live factionless Is not just to live in poverty and discomfort; it is to live divorced from society, separated from the most important thing in life: community. My mother once told me that we can’t survive alone,but even if we could, we wouldn’t want to. Without a faction, we have no purpose and no reason to live."
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"I don't see why human people make such a heavy trip out of sex. It isn't anything complex, it is simply the best thing in life, even better than food."
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"Loving becomes, and the ability to love, becomes one of the most important things in life."
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"The only certain things in life are death and taxes!"
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"It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy."
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"We think that idols are bad things, but that is almost never the case. The greater the good, the more likely we are to expect that it can satisfy our deepest needs and hopes. Anything can serve as a counterfeit god, especially the very best things in life."
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"When they mention great little things in life, they usually forget flossing."
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"What is abnormal in Life stands in normal relations to Art. It is the only thing in Life that stands in normal relations to Art."
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"The most desirable thing in life after health and modest means is leisure with dignity."
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"I like to say two things in life that mean the most: genetics and luck. When you look at it realistically, genetics is luck too. Because you could have been born in some really terrible situation and never had a chance to realize yourself or see who you were. And so the luck of genetics and then after that, circumstances, those are the two guiding things."
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"There is only one thing in life you can control: Your own effort."
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"Certain things in life are more important than the usual crap that everyone strives for."
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