#ned

One always has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual. ↗

— Thomas Mann

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When I was 18, I joined the Screen Actors Guild, and after college I came to New York. ↗

— Marla Maples

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When I was in art college, I would be painting, and I would create something on a canvas that was actually quite attractive. But if I got frightened and tried to protect that, that canvas would die. ↗

— Michael Ironside

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Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune. ↗

— William James

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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way. ↗

— William James

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People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained. ↗

— Jerome K. Jerome

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Shaving my head was a millennium ritual, to not let it pass as just another New Year's Eve. A lot has happened to me in the last couple of years, personally and spiritually. I wanted to mark it for myself. ↗

— Joan Jett

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This has been the best thing that ever happened to me. ↗

— Peter Mayhew

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I joined the PBA way before I should have because I heard a rumor they were going to limit the number of people who could get in. ↗

— Don Johnson

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I didn't raise Todd to be a writer, but he happened to be one anyway. ↗

— Anne McCaffrey

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