"Whatever necessity lays upon thee, endure; whatever she commands, do."

-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“Renouncing things is less difficult than people believe: it's all a matter of getting started. Once you've succeeded in dispensing with something you thought essential, you realize you can also do without something else, then without many other things.”
“The one true friend I thought I'd found, tonight the bottle let me down.”
“It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name.”
“Children, old people, vagabonds laugh easily and heartily: they have nothing to lose and hope for little. In renunciation lies a delicious taste of simplicity and deep peace.”
“I should say if anybody wants to tape my conversations, go right ahead, feel free to do it. I appreciate anybody who wants to tape me openly and notoriously, and those who feel like they want to sneakily, and wear taping devices, I would remind them that it kind of smells like Nixon and Watergate.”

Source : "Roundtable: Maintaining Diversity Amid Job Cuts". "Roundtable" with Farai Chideya, www.npr.org. December 10, 2008.
“The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history or fiction. It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate literature of science.”
“The problem with falling in love is falling back out of it again, usually because you've fallen in love with a lie. That happens as often as not.”
“If you've gotten yourself into a situation when Clay Aiken is going to talk about his feelings with you, it's time to kill yourself.”

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