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A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.

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I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.

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Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.

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Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

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In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

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At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas.

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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.

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Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.

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To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.

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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

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