"Lawyers-they get together all day and say to each other, "What can we postpone next?" The only thing they don't postpone, of course, is their bill, which arrives regularly. You've heard about the man who got the bill from his lawyer which said, "For crossing the street to speak to you and discovering it was not you, twelve dollars.""

-- George S. Kaufman

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“Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,--I mean good-nature,--are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.”

Source : John Dryden (1868). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden: With Life and Critical Dissertation”, p.185
“If you're starting out or trying to get to the next level, surround yourself with people who keep you motivated and energized - people who inspire you to achieve your best every day. When you do this, you can't lose.”
“Low self esteem is rooted in many things. One of them is not spending time to appreciate the gifts we've been given.”

Source : FaceBook post by Nouman Ali Khan from Dec 18, 2013
“The legislator commands the future; to be feeble will avail him nothing: it is for him to will what is good and to perpetuate it; to make man what he desires to be: for the laws, working upon the social body, which is inert in itself, can produce either virtue or crime, civilized customs or savagery.”

Source : "Discours sur la Constitution à donner à la France". Speech to the National Convention, April 24, 1793.
“I think wanting to write is a fundamental sign of disease and discomfort. I don't think people who are comfortable want to write ...”
“If I could take all my parts with me when I go somewhere / and not have to say to one of them, â€˜No, you stay home tonight, you wonâ€™t be welcomeâ€™/ because Iâ€™m going to an all-white party where I can be gay but not Black / Or Iâ€™m going to a Black poetry reading, and half the poets are anti-homosexual / or thousands of situations where something of what I am cannot come with me / The day all the different parts of me can come along / we would have what I would call / a revolution”
“It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.”
“When a patient does get an organ from another person, it comes from a different body. It has different properties, and a persons natural tendency is to reject that organ.”

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