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Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#disputing #generally #get #good #more

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#day #every #every day #felicity #fortune

I've never been to a festival. I'm a creature of habit, mashed-potato comfort, I like rugs. Our sofa's squishy. Maybe too squishy - it's hard to get up sometimes. ↗

— Martin Freeman

#comfort #creature #festival #get #habit

Still, it can be more effective to accomplish what you need to accomplish with the minimum effort. Watch Anthony Hopkins. He doesn't appear to be doing anything. He is so still that you can't see him working, but you are drawn into his character through his very stillness. ↗

— Morgan Freeman

#anthony #anthony hopkins #anything #appear #character

Men's need to dominate women may be based in their own sense of marginality or emptiness; we do not know its root, and men are making no effort to discover it. ↗

— Marilyn French

#discover #dominate #effort #emptiness #know

I'm not comfortable singing in front of people yet. That's going to take another 100 performances. ↗

— David Friedman

#comfortable #front #going #i #people

Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#effort #endless #ever #exhausts #greed

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#birth #effort #give #himself #his

I get a special joy in knowing people feel comfortable if they see me in Wal-Mart or in a no-frills section trying to get something on a discount. ↗

— Angie Stone

#discount #feel #get #i #joy

If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom. ↗

— Robert Frost

#comfortably #enough #fits #freedom #society