"We recognize that there are no trivial occurrences in life if we get the right focus on them."

-- Mark Twain

“I would not do anything to besmirch my reputation any further than it has already been.”
“And whenever I'm in a situation where I'm wearing the same as 600 other people and doing the same thing as 600 other people, looking back, I always found ways to make myself different, whether it be having a red lining inside of my jacket, having red shoes, it hasn't changed.”

Source : "Oscar, Tony, and Emmy Award-Winning Actor". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. October 27, 2000.
“...evolution is the gradual development and stratification of progressive series of wholes, stretching from the inorganic beginnings to the highest level of spiritual creation.”
“Man is responsible not only for every deed, but also for every idle word and thought.”
“Sex is probably the most fun you can have in life without gaining weight or having a hangover the next day.”
“The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.”

Source : James Allen (1923). “As a Man Thinketh”, p.22, New Line Publishing
“Hitherto, every form of society has been based ... on the antagonism of oppressing and oppressed classes.”
“Read properly, fewer books than a hundred would suffice for a liberal education. Read superficially, the British Museum Library might still leave the student a barbarian.”

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