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The only pleasurable part of taking the subway, as everyone will agree, is concocting elaborate fantasies about what it would be like to be married to the most interesting strangers you see there.
Russell Smith
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Life is sacred to me on all levels. Abortion does not compute with my philosophy.


Kate Mulgrew
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There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.
Eugene Ionesco
If we're picking people to draw out of their own conscience and experience a 'new' Constitution, we should not look principally for good lawyers. We should look to people who agree with us. When we are in that mode, you realize we have rendered the Constitution useless.
Antonin Scalia
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There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.


George Sand
Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
William Cowper
I used to hold a unitary view, in which I proposed that only experienced happiness matters, and that life satisfaction is a fallible estimate of true happiness.
Daniel Kahneman
I intentionally abandoned the hard stuff early on because not only do I think it's useless, I think it's a distraction.
Seth Godin
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Army life don't agree with me.


Eddie Slovik
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Philosophy as practice does not mean its restriction to utility or applicability, that is, to what serves morality or produces serenity of soul.
Karl Jaspers
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My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.
D. H. Lawrence
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.


Will Durant
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We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.


Eamon de Valera
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People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.


Andy Rooney
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I'm not a fan of idleness, except in small doses.


Timothy Ferriss
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Feeling sorry for ourselves is the most useless waste of energy on the planet. It does absolutely no good. We can't let our circumstances or what others do or don't do control us. We can decide to be happy regardless.
Joyce Meyer
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Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.


William Wordsworth
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Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.


Benjamin Franklin
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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.


Samuel Butler
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We all of us deserve happiness or none of us does.


Mary Gordon
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