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An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger. ↗

— Confucius

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We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression. ↗

— Confucius

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The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later. ↗

— Confucius

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Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. ↗

— William Congreve

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A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator. ↗

— Paul Valery

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A little disdain is not amiss; a little scorn is alluring. ↗

— William Congreve

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I started to discover the meaning of happiness when I started to discover--and practice--the art of acceptance. When I started to accept life for what it was and I started to accept whatever situation I was in as the way things were, I started to see that my happiness depended on my own attitude. When I started focusing on getting the most out of my life the way it was rather than trying to turn it into what I thought it should be, I started to realize that I was, indeed, becoming a much happier person. ↗

— Tom Walsh

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Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business. ↗

— Paul Valery

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Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature. ↗

— Paul Valery

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I think there'd be huge losses if there weren't newspapers. I know everything's shifting to the Internet and some people would say, 'News is news, what you're talking about is a change of consumption, not the product that's out there.' But I think there is a change. ↗

— Michael Connelly

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