"People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question."

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Source : Samuel Richardson (1751). “Clarissa; Or, The History of a Young Lady: Comprehending the Most Important Concerns of Private Life”, p.388

Samuel Richardson

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“I dont love the phrase balancing work and family. It sets up this idea of scales of justice with work on one side and family on the other side.”
“I just know that I could never spend a winter in Chicago or some place like that. Im just not a cold weather person.”
“Instead of the vast organization to exploit the weakness of the Many, should we not possess one for the exploitation of the intelligence of the Few?”
“There's a stronger and more kind of controversial element of Plotinus' view of matter, which is that he actually identifies it with evil, or at least the principle of evil, and the reason for this is that he thinks that the the One, the highest principle, can also be thought of as the Good, and that's kind of surprising like, because he has this negative theology which doesn't allow us to say anything about the One. But he believes that it can be seen as the principle of goodness as well as unity, and that if you think about it, goodness and unity sort of go along with each other.”

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“The only time some people work like a horse is when the boss rides them.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“On the 8th day, God created Mankind. Why was he having such a bad day? Why did he create all of you normal... but forget so many important parts of me?”
“Go out and do for others what somebody did for you.”

Source : Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The Last Lecture”, p.247, Hachette UK
“Contrary to the cliche', genuinely nice guys most often finish first or very near it.”

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