"We do not talk -- we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests."

Miller, Henry on conversation
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"Nine-tenths of our sickness can be prevented by right thinking plus right hygiene -- nine-tenths of it!"

Miller, Henry on vision   

"A book is a part of life, a manifestation of life, just as much as a tree or a horse or a star. It obeys its own rhythms, its own laws, whether it be a novel, a play, or a diary. The deep, hidden rhythm of life is always there -- that of the pulse, the heart beat."

Miller, Henry on books - reading
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"An artist is always alone -- if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness."

Miller, Henry on solitude
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"We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy."

Miller, Henry on society
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"Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement."

Miller, Henry on procrastination   

"One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one."

Miller, Henry on politics
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"The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware."

Miller, Henry on war
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"One's destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things."

Miller, Henry on attitude
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"I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen."

Miller, Henry on america
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"However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on friends and friendship
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"What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on friends and friendship   

"It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on friends and friendship   

"Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on flattery
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"Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on funerals   

"What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on generosity   

"Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on grace
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"We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on happiness
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"Hope is the last thing that dies in man; and though it be exceedingly deceitful, yet it is of this good use to us, that while we are traveling through life it conducts us in an easier and more pleasant way to our journey's end."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on hope
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"In jealousy there is more of self-love than love."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on jealousy
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"Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on jealousy
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"In politics the middle way is none at all."

Adams, John on politics
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"All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies."

Arbuthnot, John on politics
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"My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth."

Auden, W. H. on politics
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"It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him."

Baudrillard, Jean on politics   

"Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons."

Cannon, Joseph on politics   

"Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other."

Ameringer, Oscar on politics
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"Politics is organized hatred, that is unity."

Chapman, John Jay on politics   

"A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation."

Clarke, James Freeman on politics
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"A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice."

Landor, Walter Savage on justice   

"It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom."

Maeterlinck, Maurice on wisdom   

"Let nothing disturb thee; Let nothing dismay thee; All things pass; God never changes. Patience attains All that it strives for; He who has God Finds he lacks nothing;"

Unknown, Source on abundance
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"There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it."

Unknown, Source on adversity
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"Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth"

Unknown, Source on adversity
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"No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm."

Unknown, Source on adversity
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"The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them"

Unknown, Source on adversity
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"The stars are constantly shining, but often we do not see them until the dark hours."

Unknown, Source on adversity
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"When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own."

Unknown, Source on adversity   

"Two frogs fell into a bowl of cream. One didn't panic, he relaxed and drowned. The other kicked and struggled so much that the cream turned to butter and he walked out."

Unknown, Source on adversity
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"If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us."

Delacroix, Eugene on life