"In really hard times the rules of the game are altered. The inchoate mass begins to stir. It becomes potent, and when it strikes, it strikes with incredible emphasis. Those are the rare occasions when a national will emerges from the scattered, specialized, or indifferent blocs of voters who ordinarily elect the politicians. Those are for good or evil the great occasions in a nation's history."

Lippmann, Walter on difficulties   

"I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it. The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on."

Goldwyn, Samuel on luck   

"The harder I work the luckier I get."

Goldwyn, Samuel on luck
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"A Hospital is no place to be sick."

Goldwyn, Samuel on hospitals   

"A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on."

Goldwyn, Samuel on agreement   

"I have lived some thirty-odd years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors."

Thoreau, Henry David on advice
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"He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice."

Taylor, Sir Henry on generosity
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"Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do."

Meir, Golda on age and aging   

"Some books leave us free and some books make us free."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on books - reading
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"Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her."

Rowland, Helen on absence
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"By a lie, a man...annihilates his dignity as a man."

Kant, Immanuel on lies and lying
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"A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor."

Rowland, Helen on bachelor
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"Why should people pay good money to go out and see bad films when they can stay home and see bad television for nothing?"

Goldwyn, Samuel on movies   

"A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad."

Goldwyn, Samuel on movies   

"You've got to take the bitter with the sour."

Goldwyn, Samuel on pessimism   

"That's the kind of ad I like, facts, facts, facts."

Goldwyn, Samuel on advertising   

"Ignore what a man desires and you ignore the very source of his power"

Lippmann, Walter on desire   

"Unless democracy is to commit suicide by consenting to its own destruction, it will have to find some formidable answer to those who come to it saying: I demand from you in the name of your principles the rights which I shall deny to you later in the name of my principles."

Lippmann, Walter on democracy   

"This is one of the paradoxes of the democratic movement -- that it loves a crowd and fears the individuals who compose it -- that the religion of humanity should have no faith in human beings."

Lippmann, Walter on democracy   

"What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority."

Lippmann, Walter on democracy   

"A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on age and aging
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"To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on age and aging
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"Age, like distance lends a double charm."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on age and aging
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"I don't think anybody should write his autobiography until after he's dead."

Goldwyn, Samuel on autobiography   

"When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy."

Goldwyn, Samuel on praise   

"Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist should have his head examined."

Goldwyn, Samuel on psychiatry   

"Animals are considered as property only. To destroy or to abuse them, from malice to the proprietor, or with an intention injurious to his interest in them, is criminal. But the animals themselves are without protection. The law regards them not substantively. They have no RIGHTS!"

Lord, Shirley on animals
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"Only your mind can produce fear."

A Course In Miracles on fear
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"Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world."

A Course In Miracles on change
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"I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt."

A Course In Miracles on choice
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"There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding friends-always ready to change the subject when you have had enough of this or that."

Adams, J. Donald on libraries   

"Absurdity. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion."

Bierce, Ambrose on absurdity
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"There is nothing impossible to him who will try."

Alexander The Great on impossibility
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"Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all."

Alexander The Great on unity
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"A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient."

Alexander The Great on grave
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"You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self."

Mccant, Jerry on marriage
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"It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on love
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"The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together."

Angelis, Barbara De on love
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"Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment."

Otway, Thomas on ambition
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"We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility."

Auden, W. H. on love
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