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Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.
Baltasar Gracian

Long, Sometimes, Her

The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.
John Stuart Mill

Society, Mind, Others

Never expect people to treat you any better than you treat yourself.
Bo Bennett

Yourself, Treat, Expect

I don't have stylistic loyalty. That's why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity in my subject matter. As an artist of artifice, I do believe I have more integrity than any one of my contemporaries.
David Bowie

Time, Loyalty, Integrity

To keep it simple you run your gym like you run your house. Keep it clean and in good running order. No jerks allowed, members pay on time and if they give you any crap, throw them out. There's peace where there's order.
Joe Gold

Peace, Time, Good

The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
Denis Diderot

Great, Priest, Priests

I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me.
Doug Coupland

Eat, Paid, Thank

After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface.
Edward Hopper

Character, Nothing, After

What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?
Louisa May Alcott

Help, Through, Mothers

I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.
Bette Davis

Business, Enemy, Regret

When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system.
Kalpana Chawla

Stars, System, Land

I can't be smug, because I know that you can lose anything at any point. And I can't be angry, because I haven't lost it.
Michael J. Fox

Angry, Lost, Lose

To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Big, Plan, City

People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning.
Steven Spielberg

End, Tell, Beginning

The best protection any woman can have... is courage.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Best, Courage, Woman

I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine.
Spike Milligan

Thought, Why, Reading

A blunt statement can be as false as any other.
Mason Cooley

False, Statement, Blunt

To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.
Ramakrishna

Work, God, Fear

I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor.
Laurence Sterne

Alone, Live, Single

Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
Miguel de Cervantes

Good, Best, Mother

I'm opposed to fundamentalism in any form.
J. K. Rowling

Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders.
Virginia Woolf

Give, Another, Creative

It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.
Virginia Woolf

Longer, Ridiculous, Image

My view is different. Public relations are a key component of any operation in this day of instant communications and rightly inquisitive citizens.
Alvin Adams

Different, Public, View

Whoever understands how to do a kindness when he fares well would be a friend better than any possession.
Sophocles

Kindness, Friend, Possession

My classmates would copulate with anything that moved, but I never saw any reason to limit myself.
Emo Philips

Reason, Classmates, Moved

I am hands-on in any project that I am associated with. I just don't want to put my face or name and lend it to a product that I'm not behind a hundred percent.
Kim Kardashian

Put, Face, Name

I think if I'm 40 and I don't have any kids and I'm not married, I would have a baby artificially inseminated. I would feel like Mary - like Jesus is my baby.
Kim Kardashian

Jesus, Kids, Married

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.
Tom Stoppard

Life, Enjoy, Enough

Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.
John Locke

Love, Him, Thought

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