"Overdressing is the first cousin of trying too hard."

-- Karen Karbo

#Cousin Quotes #Trying Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“Maybe there isn't a meaning to life. Maybe there's only a meaning to living.”
“The hardest thing in photography is to create a simple image.”
“There's the part that I just want what I want, and I don't want to be bothered by anything else, and sort of the short-term more compulsive self. And then that's the longer-term, aspirational self that wants to be informed about the world and wants to be a good citizen. The best media basically helps us strike a balance between those two things.”

Source : "Eli Pariser: What Search Engines Are Hiding From Us". "KPBS Midday Edition" with Maureen Cavanaugh, www.kpbs.org. May 23, 2011.
“It isn't what people think that is important, but the reason they think what they think”

Source : "Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time". Book by Laurence J. Peter, p. 468, 1977.
“The improvement of our way of life is more important than the spreading of it. If we make it satisfactory enough, it will spread automatically. If we do not, no strength of arms can permanently oppose it.”
“How you respond to the enemy of your soul determines whether his plan for your life or God's plan for your life is realized.”
“We frequently do good in order to enable us to do evil later with impunity exemption of punishment.”
“I appreciate men like Ben Webster and Coleman Hawkins very much.”

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