Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
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Work and acquire and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance.
We become what we think about all day long.
Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce
What a new face courage puts on everything.
People only see what they are prepared to see.
Be and not seem.
We know better than we do, We do not yet possess ourselves.
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he know that every day is Doomsday.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.
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My mom and dad gave their kids the greatest gift of all - the gift of unconditional love. They cared deeply about who we would be, and much less about what we would do.
My dad's got a brilliant eye for scripts 'cos he's a literary agent. He and my agent read a load of scripts and filter them.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
There are people who have money and people who are rich.
Be to her virtues very kind. Be to her faults a little blind.
Sometimes the best gain is to lose.
I love women, but I feel like you can't trust some of them. Some of them are liars, you know? Like I was in the park and I met this girl, she was cute and she had a dog. And I went up to her, we started talking. She told me her dog's name. Then I said, 'Does he bite?' She said, 'No.' And I said, 'Oh yeah? Then how does he eat?' Liar.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
We have time, there's no big rush.
What you're seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they're directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society.
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