Menander Quotes
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She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.
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Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
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One of the banners I would put up in front of any American president and new administration is 'Do not overreact to your predecessors' policies.'
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My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
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People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.
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I'm under five feet; I'm very small, 4'11 1/2.
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Airplanes are interesting toys, but of no military value.
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The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.
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Antonio Damasio is a distinguished neuroscientist with a flair for writing about science and an enthusiasm for philosophizing.
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So far, Vancouver is my favorite relocation city. It feels like home. Parts of it remind me of the east coast. It's very clean. The food is great. And the people are lovely. Not that I didn't love working in other glamorous locations like Downey, Detroit, Cleveland or Bulgaria... but, damn, it is fun to be Canadian.
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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
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I know this is rather trivial - I will not be very deep about this - but it's great when you call the hottest restaurant in town and ask for a table for five at 8:00 P.M., and they say, 'Okay,' instead of, 'You have to wait two months.'
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With the Internet and social media being a huge part of today's culture, I think it's super important to promote staying smart online.
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The corporations are shoving just the worst music down everybody's throats, and I think the result of that is that nobody has any taste. They have no bar as to what is good.
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Hope is like one of those orchids that grows around toxic waste: lovely in itself - and an assertion, if you like, of indefatigable good - but a sure sign that something nasty lies underneath.
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Sometimes one’s very angry and preaches, but I know that to clinch a point is to close it. To leave the reader free to decide what your work means, that’s the real art; it makes the work inexhaustible.
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Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket, a thumb to suck, a skirt to hold. What does the scientist have to offer in exchange? Uncertainty! Insecurity!
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This country … abounds in that Cuba is a heaven in the spiritual sense of the word, and we prefer to die in heaven than serve in hell.
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In high school, I was doing a skit for forensics and people started laughing, more than I was prepared to deal with. It was a surprise.
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Mild depression is a gradual and sometimes permanent thing that undermines people the way rust weakens iron ... Like physical pain that becomes chronic, it is miserable not so much because it is intolerable in the moment as because it is intolerable to have known it in the moments gone and to look forward only to knowing it in the moments to come.
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I don't like anything that scares me, and I prefer to face it head on and get over it. Anyone who says they're not scared is a fool, a liar or both. I just don't want that fear in my stomach to be part of my life, so I work to eliminate it.
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I wasn’t raised, I was built.
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Even when things feel calm, there is still a risk.
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The good man makes others good.
