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But how then can you really care if anybody gets it, or gets what it means, or if it improves them? Improves them for what? For death? Why hurry them along?

-Frank O'Hara

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Keep constant guard over your perceptions, for it is no small thing you are protecting, but your respect, trustworthiness and steadiness, peace of mind, freedom from pain and fear, in a word your freedom. For what would you sell these things?

-Epictetus

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We have the power to hold no opinion about a thing and to not let it upset our state of mind - for things have no natural power to shape our judgments.

-Marcus Aurelius

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If you wish to improve, be content to appear clueless or stupid in extraneous matters - don't wish to seem knowledgeable. And if some regard you as important, distrust yourself.

Epictetus

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Mix a little foolishness with your prudence: It's good to be silly at the right moment.

Horace

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The sun don't shine on the same dog's ass all the time.

Jim "Catfish" Hunter

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Adversity not only draws people together but brings forth that beautiful inward friendship, just as the cold winter forms ice-figures on the window panes which the warmth of the sun effaces.

Soren Kierkegaard

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Without my morning coffee I'm just like a dried-up piece of roast goat.

Johann Sebastian Bach

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Keep your eyes open and your mouth shut.

John Steinbeck

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I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.

Boris Pasternak

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The thing that is important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.

Diane Arbus

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Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Never memorize what you can look up in books.

Albert Einstein

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Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.

Marcus Aurelius

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To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discover who is a fool than to discover who is a clever man.

Cato the Elder

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Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.

Laurence J. Peter