"Anyone, without any great penetration, may distinguish the dispositions consequent on wealth; for its possessors are insolent and overbearing, from being tainted in a certain way by the getting of their wealth. For they are affected as though they possessed every good; since wealth is a sort of standard of the worth of other things; whence every thing seems to be purchasable by it."
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"I think that the only way that you really keep it a secret is by not telling anyone."
"Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability."
"And of course, the answer came to me in the same way Jesus comes to those who drink in trailers: as an epiphany."
"I find that the love we share fills me up and makes me see and appreciate life in a different way."
"In this case, the neurotic resembles a human being who looks up to God, commends himself to His ways, and then religiously awaits how the Lord will guide him; he is nailed to the cross of his fiction."
"The inclination of my life...has been to do things & make things which will give pleasure to people in new and amazing ways."
"I kissed thee ere I killed thee. No way but this, Killing myself, to die upon a kiss."
"Ideology is a specious way of relating to the world. It offers human beings the illusion of an identity, of dignity, and of morality while making it easier for them to part with them."
"If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!"
"You did something because it had always been done, and the explanation was, ‘But we’ve always done it this way.’ A million dead people can’t have been wrong, can they?"
"The only way to defeat pain is to recognize pain exists."
"They were not failures, they were new found ways of what does not work "I can accept failure,everyonefails at something. But I can't accept not trying"
"Continued innovation is the best way to beat the competition."
"Nothing is more incumbent on the old than to know when they should get out of the way and relinquish to younger successors the honors they can no longer earn, and the duties they can no longer perform."
"I think that you’ve got to make something that pleases you and hope that other people feel the same way."
"Time is one of the biggest issues you'll see. People just do not know how to maximize their time. The way in which you execute and utilize time is everything. And most people push up against the threshold of their control."
"It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy."
"There's no way I could pay you back but my plan is to show you that I understand, you are appreciated"
"Bluebell had been saying that he knew the men hated us for raiding their crops and gardens, and Toadflax answered, 'That wasn't why they destroyed the warren. It was just because we were in their way. They killed us to suit themselves."