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"I am wiser than this man; it is likely that neither of us knows anything worthwhile, but he thinks he knows something when he does not, whereas when I do not know, neither do I think I know; so I am likely to be wiser than he to this small extent, that I do not think I know what I do not know."
--Socrates, Qtd. by Plato in The Apology.
"If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten."
Think that one out.
"What little I've accomplished has been by the most laborious and uphill work, and I wish now I'd never relaxed or looked back -- but said... 'I've found my line -- from now on this comes first. This is my immediate duty -- without this I am nothing.'"
--F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Carrie: "Damn! Why is that girl still bothering me?"
Samantha: "Honey, you have to let it go. If I worried what every bitch in New York was saying about me, I'd never leave the house."
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"Katy" -- parable to "Sheila"
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"He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words."
--Elbert Hubbard
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts."
--Bertrand Russell
"Luck" is when preparedness meets opportunity.
Grey's Anatomy. Sex and the City. Friends. Cashmere Mafia. House. Will and Grace. Conan. Leno.
The Great Gatsby. The Perks of Being a Wallflower. The Human Stain (Roth). The Trial (Kafka). Tuesdays with Morrie. My Name is Asher Lev. The Awakening. (Many more I can't think of at the moment!) Any of Plato's works, and pretty much anything within the realms of psychological or philosophical literature - call me a nerd, but I really enjoy literature that actually has substance and expects something of the reader.
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"It is not difficult to avoid death, gentlemen; it is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death."
--Socrates
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"Beggars get handouts before philosophers because people have some idea of what it's like to be blind and lame."
--Diogenes
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"The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge."
--Elbert Hubbard
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"Deficiency in judgment is just what is ordinarily called stupidity, and for that there is no remedy."
--Immanuel Kant
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Grieve not, nor speak of me with tears,
but laugh and talk of me as if I were beside you.
I loved you so...
Twas heaven here with you.
--Isla Paschal Richardson
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