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A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror, that confidence of success that often induces real success.

—Sigmund Freud

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All good qualities in a child are the result of environment, while all the bad ones are the result of poor heredity on the side of the other parent.

—Elinor Goulding Smith

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It gives one a feeling of confidence to see nature still busy with experiments, still dynamic, and not through nor satisfied because a Devonian fish managed to end as a two-legged character with a straw hat. There are other things brewing and growing in the oceanic vat. It pays to know this. It pays to know that there is just as much future as there is past. The only thing that doesn't pay is to be sure of man's own part in it. There are things down there still coming ashore.

—Loren Eiseley

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I'm astounded by people who want to "know" the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.

—Woody Allen

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The first mystery is simply that there is a mystery, a mystery that can never be explained or understood, only encountered from time to time. Nothing is obvious. Everything conceals something else.

—Lawrence Kushner

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I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them.

—Veronica Roth in Allegiant

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One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth is what one becomes.

—John Galsworthy

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I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest.

—Frank Sinatra

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I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love.

—Leslie Fiedler

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Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves.

—Dorothy Parker

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We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

—Samuel Johnson

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One thing you will probably remember well is any time you forgive and forget.

—Franklin P. Jones

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Songs and smells will bring you back to a moment in time more than anything else. It’s amazing how much can be conjured with a few notes of a song or a solitary whiff of a room. A song you didn’t even pay attention to at the time, a place that you didn’t even know had a particular smell.

—Emily Giffin in Something Borrowed

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Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.

—George Eliot

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Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.

—Gordon R. Dickson

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