"Our passions do not live apart in locked chambers but dress in their small wardrobe of notions, bring their provisions to a common table and mess together, feeding out of the common store according to their appetite."

Eliot, George on passion   

"Certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we're so fond of it."

Eliot, George on obstinacy   

"Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike."

Eliot, George on women   

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"Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil."

Garcia, Jerry on choice
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"Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both."

Edwards, Tryon on choice
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"Even as a tortoise draws in its limbs, the wise can draw in their senses at will."

Bhagavad Gita on choice
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"It's so hard when I have to, And so easy when I want to."

Barnes, Sondra Anice on choice
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"I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt."

A Course In Miracles on choice
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"Russia has abolished God, but so far God has been tolerant."

Swayze, John on nations   

"No one ever went broke by saying no too often."

Mackay, Harvey on choice
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"I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it."

Marx, Groucho on choice
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"We'd all like to vote for the best man, but he's never a candidate."

Hubbard, Kin on voting
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"A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows."

Henry, O. on voting   

"The average man votes below himself; he votes with half a mind or a hundredth part of one. A man ought to vote with the whole of himself, as he worships or gets married. A man ought to vote with his head and heart, his soul and stomach, his eye for faces and his ear for music; also (when sufficiently provoked) with his hands and feet. If he has ever seen a fine sunset, the crimson color of it should creep into his vote. The question is not so much whether only a minority of the electorate votes. The point is that only a minority of the voter votes."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on voting
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"If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are..."

Stevens, Cat on choice   

"If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice."

Peart, Neil on choice
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"The more equally attractive two alternatives seem, the harder it can be to choose between them -- no matter that, to the same degree, the choice can only matter less."

Paradox, Edward Fredkin's on choice   

"A shocking occurrence ceases to be shocking when it occurs daily."

Chase, Alexander on familiarity
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"A man's home is his wife's castle."

Chase, Alexander on home
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"Memory is the thing you forget with."

Chase, Alexander on memory   

"The banalities of a great man pass for wit."

Chase, Alexander on wit   

"What is an adult? A child blown up by age."

Beauvoir, Simone De on adulthood
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"We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice -- that is, until we have stopped saying It got lost, and say, I lost it."

Harris, Sidney J. on adulthood
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"A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does."

Hershey, Lewis B on adulthood
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"Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh."

Cohen, Leonard on injury
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"Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears."

Aurelius, Marcus on injury
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"To live is to hurt others, and through others, to hurt oneself. Cruel earth! How can we manage not to touch anything? To find what ultimate exile?"

Camus, Albert on injury
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"It is best to love wisely, no doubt: but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all."

Thackeray, William M. on infatuation
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"One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love -- any love -- reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness."

Pavese, Cesare on infatuation
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"There aren't many irritations to match the condescension which a woman metes out to a man who she believes has loved her vainly for the past umpteen years."

Hoagland, Edward on infatuation   

"No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person."

Cather, Willa on independence
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"Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up."

Edwards, Tryon on age and aging
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"Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny."

Edwards, Tryon on destiny
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"Tact is the art of making guests feel at home when that's really where you wish they were."

Bergman, George E. on tact and tactfulness
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"Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you."

Murdock, Mike on relationship
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"Long-term commitment to an intimate relationship with one person of whatever sex is an essential need that people have in order to breed the qualities out of which nurturing thought can rise."

Lerner, Gerda on relationship
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"There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship."

Murdoch, Iris on relationship
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"We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on relationship
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"Constant togetherness is fine -- but only for Siamese twins."

Billings, Victoria on relationship
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"People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them."

Burke, Edmund on relationship
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