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I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

—Winston Churchill

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The Internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If you want to connect, it makes it easier to connect.

—Esther Dyson

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The sea hath fish for every man.

—William Camden

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It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are.

—Agatha Christie in The Man in the Brown Suit

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The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

—Henry Stimson

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Percentage wise, it is 100% easier not to do things than to do them, and so much fun not to do them—especially when you were supposed to do them. In terms of instant relief, canceling plans is like heroin.

—John Mulaney

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The only obsession everyone wants: ‘love.’ People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you’re whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You’re whole, and then you’re cracked open.

—Philip Roth in The Dying Animal

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Exchange ideas frequently.

—James Cash Penney

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Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.

—Lewis Mumford

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Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born.

—Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.

—Samual Johnson

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Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.

—Veronica Roth in Divergent

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

—Baruch Spinoza

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Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

—John Ruskin

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I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.

—Flannery O'Connor

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