"Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages."

Agnew, Spiro T. on media
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"Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire."

Borges, Jorge Luis on time   

"Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their true importance. The first thing tomorrow morning, start working on an item Number 1, and stay with it until completed. Then take item Number 2 the same way. Then Number 3, and so on. Don't worry if you don't complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones."

Lee, Ivy on time   

"The Jews generally give value. They make you pay; but they deliver the goods. In my experience the men who want something for nothing are invariably Christians."

Shaw, George Bernard on judaism and jews
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"Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way."

Brown, Les on hunger
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"Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open."

Pine, Arthur on action   

"People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don't want heroes; what they want is to see you fall."

DiCaprio, Leonardo on criticism
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"Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more."

Jong, Erica on love
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"There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear."

Johnson, Ben on hell
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"England is paradise for women, and hell for horses: Italy is a paradise for horses, hell for women."

Burton, Robert on nationalities and nationalism   

"You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help."

Kerr, Jean on poverty and the poor
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"A smart person knows what to say, a wise person knows whether or not to say it."

Unknown, Source on speakers and speaking   

"To a well deserving person God will show favor. To an ill deserving person He will simply be just."

Plaut on favors   

"I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world."

Wilde, Oscar on principles
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"It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job."

Dunn, Paul H. on business   

"In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way."

Murdoch, Iris on marriage
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"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly."

Hughes, Langston on dream
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"If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love."

Diana, Princess of Wales on love
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"There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed."

Pope, Alexander on sex   

"No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness."

Aristotle on madness
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"In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom!"

Ballard, J. G. on madness
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"The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason."

Broch, Hermann on madness
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"Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane."

Miller, Henry on madness
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"If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; if God talks to you, you are a schizophrenic."

Szasz, Thomas on madness
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"A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity."

Taylor, Jeremy on celibacy   

"A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats."

Hawthorne, Nathaniel on chastity   

"An unattempted lady could not vaunt of her chastity."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on chastity   

"These people abstain, it is true: but the bitch Sensuality glares enviously out of all they do."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on chastity
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"Your old virginity is like one of our French withered pears: it looks ill, it eats dryly."

Shakespeare, William on chastity   

"God hath prepared a little coronet or special reward (extraordinary and beside the great crown of all faithful souls) for those who have not defiled themselves with women."

Taylor, Jeremy on chastity   

"Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful, but because it is his. If it were his beauty that enthralled him, he would be set free in a few years by its fading."

Auden, W. H. on conceit
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"See the man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope for a fool than for him. [Proverbs 26:7]"

Bible on conceit
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"Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit."

Bacon, Francis on conceit
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"Conceit in weakest bodies works the strongest."

Shakespeare, William on conceit
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"People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited."

Thackeray, William M. on conceit
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"Conceit is incompatible with understanding."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on conceit
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"Conceit is God's gift to little men."

Truman, Harry S on conceit
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"Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done."

Unitas, Johnny on conceit   

"Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love."

Traherne, Thomas on conceit
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"Conceit is a queer disease -- it makes everyone Sick except the person who has it."

Unknown, Source on conceit
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