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Most people would rather give than get affection.
Aristotle

Give, Affection

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
Voltaire

Judge, Questions, Answers

Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.
Alice Koller

Alone, Others, Choice

If you're not willing to work hard, let someone else do it. I'd rather be with someone who does a horrible job, but gives 110% than with someone who does a good job and gives 60%.
Will Smith

Work, Good, Job

A women under stress is not immediately concerned with finding solutions to her problems but rather seeks relief by expressing herself and being understood.
John Gray

Women, Stress, Problems

All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I'd worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: 'Don't hide these things from me. I'd rather you ask me these things straight out, and I'll answer all your questions.'
Marilyn Monroe

Hurt, Sometimes, Tell

I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.
William F. Buckley, Jr.

Government, United, University

Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Listen, Mankind, Reasons

I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are.
Milton Berle

Cannot, Far, Once

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Against, Existence, Argument

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.
Emma Goldman

Roses, Diamonds, Table

It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.
Henry David Thoreau

Heart, Sensitive, Wounded

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.
Henry David Thoreau

Best, Before, Wish

If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.
Henry David Thoreau

Humanity, Seem, Becoming

Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.
Henry David Thoreau

Often, Property, Houses

I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
Henry David Thoreau

Clothes, Beware, Require

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?
Henry David Thoreau

Work, End, Humble

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
Walt Disney

Hope, Learned, Entertain

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale

Trouble, Criticism, Praise

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.
Elbert Hubbard

Able, Appreciate

I like looking nice, but I always put comfort over fashion. I don't find thin girls attractive; be happy and healthy. I've never had a problem with the way I look. I'd rather have lunch with my friends than go to a gym.
Adele

Happy, Nice, Friends

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

Fear, Away, Learn

The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
Gustave Flaubert

Life, Success, Future

We only live once, but once is enough if we do it right. Live your life with class, dignity, and style so that an exclamation, rather than a question mark signifies it!
Gary Ryan Blair

Life, Live, Enough

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.
Plato

Knowledge, Wisdom, Justice

It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Death, Live, Spiritual

Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.
Wayne Dyer

Time, Live, Rules

The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.
Thomas Sowell

Government, Real, Goal

A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
Max Planck

Truth, Die, Light

For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.
Viktor E. Frankl

Life, Person, Moment

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