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It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death. ↗

— Epictetus

#dreaded #fear #pain

Do you know what you call those who use towels and never wash them, eat meals and never do the dishes, sit in rooms they never clean, and are entertained till they drop? If you have just answered, "A house guest," you're wrong because I have just described my kids. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#because #call #clean #described #dishes

Art helped give me confidence. ↗

— Jeff Koons

#confidence #give #give me #helped #me

My idea of beauty is somebody that doesn't have to try too much, someone who is effortless and fresh. ↗

— Jessica Ennis

#effortless #fresh #idea #much #somebody

One minute you're a developing athlete trying to get to the top, then the next minute you do well and win a medal somewhere, and then it's all foisted on you. You never know when it's going to happen. You don't think about the media side of things when you're a young athlete trying to do well. ↗

— Jessica Ennis

#athlete #developing #get #going #happen

The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work. ↗

— Brian Eno

#basis #brain #computer #decisions #does

For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#been #companion #dinner #done #go

I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders. ↗

— Brian Eno

#could #first #got #heard #i

Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#literary #never #seriously #start #suicide

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#death #defeated #die #inglorious #live