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“People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.”
Source : "Remembering Joan Rivers" by Erica Diamond, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 8, 2014.
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“The hell of human suffering, evil and oppression is paved with good intentions. The men who have most injured and oppressed humanity, who have most deeply sinned against it, were according to their standards and their conscience good men; what was bad in them, what wrought moral evil and cruelty, treason to truth and progress, was not at all in their intentions, in their purpose, in their personal character, but in their opinions.”
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“Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.”
Source : Ludwig Von Mises (1963). “Human action: a treatise on economics”
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“I can't focus when there's too many things around. Whenever I used to go to the office, I used to always say, 'Tidy up.'”
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“Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.”
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“...it was so rich and exotic I was seduced into taking one bite and then another as I tried to chase the flavors back to their source.”
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“You are Insignificant. One of millions, neither special nor unique. I did not ask for this ignominy, and I resent the comparison. Fine. I don't you like you, either.”
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“I enjoy the old-fashioned idea of, like, His Girl Friday and Bringing Up Baby, those old movies.”
Source : Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. February 21, 2011.