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No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating. ↗

— Harold Rosenberg

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Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

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Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self. ↗

— Erich Fromm

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The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race. ↗

— William E. Gladstone

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Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness. ↗

— William E. Gladstone

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Respect... is appreciation of the separateness of the other person, of the ways in which he or she is unique. ↗

— Annie Gottlieb

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Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness. ↗

— Helen Keller

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My witness is the empty sky. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

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