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Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. ↗

— William James

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One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible, and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so. ↗

— Franz Kafka

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I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird. ↗

— Uma Thurman

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My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to do, but also to gain some wisdom in perceiving what it is well to let alone. ↗

— Gertrude Jekyll

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Literature that keeps employing new linguistic and formal modes of expression to draft a panorama of society as a whole while at the same time exposing it, tearing the masks from its face - for me that would be deserving of an award. ↗

— Elfriede Jelinek

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We must stop posing as victims of the West and behaving negatively towards the West. We must participate with the West on an equal footing in the reconstruction of the world. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

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There is a comfort zone of knowing where things are going and having characters in place, but the action gets more and more dramatic and is very challenging to describe. ↗

— Jerry B. Jenkins

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We're living proof that nice guys always finish last. ↗

— Matthew Cooper

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